I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing … - Louis Begley

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I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.

Louis Begley

I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.

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As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.

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I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

Fire, Like, Long, Stories, Tell, Writing

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

Confession, Confessions, Interest, Prefer, Screen, Writing

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

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I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.

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