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• Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
• I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now?…
• [T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you…
• Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
• If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood…
• How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need…
• Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by…
• Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in…
• If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
• The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
• When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world…
• If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into…

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