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I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where…
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I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where…
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When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,…
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But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
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No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing…
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But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for…
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The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of…
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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people…
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Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.
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The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach…
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Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being…
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Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you…
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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people…
— Betsy Lerner
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in…
— Dick Cavett
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Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially…
— Jill Abramson
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At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror,…
— W G Sebald
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Here is my recipe for a mood enhancer. Take a friend, preferably one with a really annoying fringe and outsize pants, and…
— Louise Rennison
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