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• I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.
• I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting…
• Let's face it, writing is hell.
• You live several lives while reading [a good book].
• And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today…
• I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ...…
• It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
• Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no…

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