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- If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
- I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
- I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than…
- Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside…
- I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this…
- I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an…
- I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
- Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the…
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