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Paul Lynch
Goodreads Author
Born
in Limerick, Ireland
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
October 2019
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Prophet Song
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published
2023
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41 editions
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Grace
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published
2017
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7 editions
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Red Sky in Morning
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published
2013
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27 editions
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Beyond the Sea
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published
2019
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20 editions
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The Black Snow
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published
2014
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15 editions
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Hi Ash. Many thanks for your question. I know the hellpage you are talking about. Let's just say, I avoided writing it for months. I didn't know how to go about writing that chapter, let alone that page. And then one night I had a dream that revealed
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“and the prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others, that the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore,”
― Prophet Song
― Prophet Song
“after a certain age a man grows a beard not to enter manhood but to put a barrier to his youth,”
― Prophet Song
― Prophet Song
“We are both scientists, Eilish, we belong to a tradition but tradition is nothing more than what everyone can agree on – the scientists, the teachers, the institutions, if you change ownership of the institutions then you can change ownership of the facts, you can alter the structure of belief, what is agreed upon, that is what they are doing, Eilish, it is really quite simple, the NAP is trying to change what you and I call reality, they want to muddy it like water, if you say one thing is another thing and you say it enough times, then it must be so, and if you keep saying it over and over people accept it as true – this is an old idea, of course, it really is nothing new, but you’re watching it happen in your own time and not in a book.”
― Prophet Song
― Prophet Song
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“What I’m interested in discovering is human truth. What does it mean to be alive within the dream of life? It seems to me there are essential human truths that have never changed throughout the ages, and that what we think of as unique to our own time is, in fact, the general. I am convinced, as a writer, that we must be able to witness ourselves as we have been moved and shaped by such universal forces.”
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“I believe it is worth writing to remind ourselves of what we can’t know. To remind ourselves that certainty is dangerous. That factual knowledge of the world casts only a small light. Fiction is necessary because it seems to me that only fiction can accommodate the total strangeness that is life. To remind us that truth is actually impossible.”
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“How do you write about what can’t be written about? I try to bend language until it can suggest the ineffable, the great gap between what we think we know, and what we don’t know. The felt but not expressed. The intuited but not understood.”
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“I do think you must always write for the ideal reader. But it would be folly to worry too much about who exactly that is.”
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“I ask myself if I have got close enough to what I am writing about. Often, I find the closer you get, the more texture you are going to end up with. That for sure will slow a reader down. And great if it does.”
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