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• The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that…
• Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
• In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
• To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
• Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
• My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
• People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
• It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…

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