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> [“The thing is not to write what no one else has written but to write what only you could have written.' I found this fragment in my old notebooks. The person who wrote that couldn't have known what would happen:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nam-le/the-thing-is-not-to-write-what-no-one-else-has-written-but-to-write/)

[Nam Le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nam-le/)

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## More by Nam Le

> [“The thing is not to write what no one else could have written, but to write what only you could have written.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nam-le/the-thing-is-not-to-write-what-no-one-else-could-have-written-but-to/)

[Nam Le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nam-le/)

> [“I do believe that you can never know yourself let alone the person next to you let alone the person halfway across the world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nam-le/i-do-believe-that-you-can-never-know-yourself-let-alone-the-person/)

[Nam Le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nam-le/)

> [“The thing is not to write what no one else has written but to write what only you could have written.' I found this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nam-le/the-thing-is-not-to-write-what-no-one-else-has-written-but-to-write/)

[Nam Le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nam-le/)

> [“-honor won in youth grows with age.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nam-le/honor-won-in-youth-grows-with-age/)

[Nam Le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nam-le/)

> [“That was the problem with Alison Fischer: you never knew which part of her to look at. He looked at her face”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nam-le/that-was-the-problem-with-alison-fischer-you-never-knew-which-part-of/)

[Nam Le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nam-le/)

> [“Art, after all, is - at its best - a lie that tells us the truth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nam-le/art-after-all-is-at-its-best-a-lie-that-tells-us-the-truth/)

[Nam Le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nam-le/)

> [“...how necessary it was to stay on the surface of things. Because beneath the surface was either dread or delirium.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nam-le/how-necessary-it-was-to-stay-on-the-surface-of-things-because-beneath/)

[nam le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nam-le/)

> [“You couldn't think of after, you only thought of now, and come to think of it, you didn't do that either- you were left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nam-le/you-couldn-t-think-of-after-you-only-thought-of-now-and-come-to-think/)

[Nam Le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nam-le/)

> [“And it occurred to me then how it took hours, sometimes day, for the surface of a river to freeze over-to hold in its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nam-le/and-it-occurred-to-me-then-how-it-took-hours-sometimes-day-for-the/)

[Nam Le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nam-le/)

> [“If you ask me why I came to Iowa, I would say that Iowa is beautiful in the way that any place is beautiful:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nam-le/if-you-ask-me-why-i-came-to-iowa-i-would-say-that-iowa-is-beautiful/)

[Nam Le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nam-le/)

> [“He looked out the open window. So this was what it was like. He looked through the green foliage, over the ocean, and felt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nam-le/he-looked-out-the-open-window-so-this-was-what-it-was-like-he-looked/)

[Nam Le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nam-le/)

> [“I write under not only the presumption that everything I write is deeply conditioned by everything I’ve already written, but that everything I write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nam-le/i-write-under-not-only-the-presumption-that-everything-i-write-is/)

[Nam Le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nam-le/)

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