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I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.
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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were…
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There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like,…
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Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.
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I was ravenous for my child and took to gorging myself in the boneyard, hoping that she might possibly meet me halfway,…
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I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.
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I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your…
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Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.
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Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological…
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If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
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He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the still perfume…
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Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . .…
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
— A. S. Byatt
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Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
— Donald Barthelme
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The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have…
— Gene Wolfe
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The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with…
— Anatole Broyard
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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were…
— Paul Harding
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The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the…
— Robert Goolrick
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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
— Eric Kripke
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It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
— John Updike
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Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
— Lev Grossman
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
— Van Morrison
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People always go on about how fantastic relationships are in the beginning, and of course everyone hates relationships when they end, but…
— Mike Gayle
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I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
— Katherine Applegate
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