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- Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
- Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of…
- Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
- It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.
- The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
- You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
- I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great…
- I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
- Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to…
- My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as…
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