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Quotes from Interview — Clarice Lispector

1920–1977 Brazil

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I am not a professional writer, because I write only when I want to.

Interview (1977)

Without yet realizing that, for me, form and meaning are one single thing. The phrase arrives already made.

Interview (1977)

What’s natural is supernatural, too. Don’t think that it’s very far off. What’s natural is already a mystery.

Interview (1977)

I was what I still am, a daring shy person. I’m shy, but I throw myself into things.

Interview (1977)

(You never felt a violent impact from a book?) CL: A bit, sometimes. I felt it with “Crime and Punishment,” by Dostoyevsky, which gave me a real fever. “Steppenwolf” turned me upside down.

Interview (1977)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Clarice Lispector (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.