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- Memory feeds imagination.
- A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
- Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.
- Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
- I have always known a thing before it happens.
- It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
- Your only shame is to have shame.
- Libraries are the pride of the city.
- To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
- Hardships can harden even the best person.
- Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.
- Fate changes when you change your clothes.
- The life we receive is not always what we choose.
- With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
- My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.
- Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
- I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
- In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
- It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
- It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
- I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
- I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
- I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
- I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
- I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
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