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• In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you…
• Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this…
• You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
• I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats…
• Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.
• Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just…
• "I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue…
• Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they…
• Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.
• The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.
• It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
• Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become…

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