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Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled...
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I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who…
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Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
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All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in…
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Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only…
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No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they…
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I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on…
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I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.
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I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to…
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There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have…
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She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.
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Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point,…
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Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness.... Thanks be to God that this is so! In…
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I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on…
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Whenever you look down upon yourself just remember that some people will like to be at your place, would like to have…
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