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• We invent what we love and what we fear.
• I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why?…
• A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
• It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be…
• A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and…
• My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.
• Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the…
• Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean!
• I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and…
• But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of…
• Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
• Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

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