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- One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
- Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
- If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not…
- The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the…
- My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact,…
- What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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