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Quotation of the Day for August 2, 2013



INTERVIEWER

So, how do you write, exactly?

BALLARD

Actually, there's no secret. One simply pulls the cork out of the bottle, waits three minutes, and two thousand or more years of Scottish craftsmanship does the rest.

- J. G. Ballard, writer, from a Paris Review interview with Thomas Frick.

[http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2929/the-art-of-fiction-no-85-j-g-ballard]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Aug. 1, 2013

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