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• I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My…
• After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.
• Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges.…
• I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd…
• I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
• I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have…
• And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I…
• There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so…
• I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a…
• Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.
• What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these…
• If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to…

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