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• Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key,…
• Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative…
• Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.
• Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into…
• Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed,…
• If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but…
• Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
• If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that…
• On a good day I write, all day.
• That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.
• When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.
• Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over…

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