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There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open…
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Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is…
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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book…
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Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage…
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People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the…
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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
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A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if…
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I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.
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Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.
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You can't find peace by avoiding life.
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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long…
— Bill McKibben
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I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
— Annie Dillard
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The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent…
— Isak Dinesen
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I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.
— Paul Harding
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I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss.…
— Sebastian Faulks
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But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising…
— Jaimal Yogis
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I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..
— Bill Ayers
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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
— Black Elk
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I…
— Clive Barker
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I…
— J R Ward
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