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- It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.
- As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom…
- People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.
- A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop…
- Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still…
- I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical…
- I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that…
- Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated…
- There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which…
- Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an…
- Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on…
- See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason.…
- ... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.
- What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be…
- Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is…
- Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is…
- For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on…
- I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do…
- There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence,…
- Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we…
- Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.
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