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I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My…
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After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.
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Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges.…
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I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd…
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I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
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I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have…
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And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I…
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There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so…
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I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a…
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Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.
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What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these…
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If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to…
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a…
— Lord Byron
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I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.
— Bernard Moitessier
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When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer…
— George Saintsbury
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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are…
— Howard Zinn
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I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my…
— Jean Craighead George
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will…
— Aaron Carter
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Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my…
— Andrew Solomon
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When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.
— Anne Frank
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If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when…
— Rich Little
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Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges.…
— Denis Johnson
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I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
— Samuel Johnson
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A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little…
— Henri Nouwen
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