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- I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to…
- I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have…
- But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch…
- When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry…
- Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as…
- It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family and how much…
- Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, so far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of…
- Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet,…
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