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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come…
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Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be…
— Alyssa Milano
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I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American…
— Glenn Miller
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Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like…
— Amanda Beard
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At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy…
— Willard Wigan
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Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.
— Nigel Slater
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Books were my passion and my escape from madness.
— Dorothea Benton Frank
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Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.
— Rachel Roy
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I noticed the different kids were always put down by other people and it would cause them to become almost violent with…
— Andy Biersack
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No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I…
— Miley Cyrus
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The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my…
— Gloria Estefan
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My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
— Carl Hiaasen
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I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice…
— Nicole Kidman
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