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- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
- I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the…
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not…
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted…
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you…
- You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have…
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form…
- Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
- I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It…
- You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in…
- Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.
- For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go…
- There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain…
- I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled…
- The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to…
- Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the…
- If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of…
- Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was…
- And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need,…
- Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where…
- The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders…
- As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to…
- Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,…
- She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had…
- Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you…
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