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• To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.
• An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.
• To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe,…
• [M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and…
• Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.
• A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
• Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.
• We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering…
• When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.
• Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.
• Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.
• Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

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