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• The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your…
• I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
• Write from what you know into what you don't know.
• Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?
• The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.
• To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.
• I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
• Art is too long, and life is too short,
• But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If…
• Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.
• I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want…
• I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

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