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• You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will…
• My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.
• When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
• I always want to write something better than the last book.
• I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.
• I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and…
• I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.
• I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the…
• I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject…
• I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
• I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
• Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in…

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