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Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
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I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now?…
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[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you…
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
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If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood…
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How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need…
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by…
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Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in…
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If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
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The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
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When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world…
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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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Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a…
— Amy Tan
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Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is…
— Allan Bloom
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There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking…
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The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, 'That guy can write a story.' It's prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed…
— Tony D'Souza
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Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.
— Diana Trilling
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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything…
— Mary Gordon
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