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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.
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Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.
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When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.
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And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've…
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I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get…
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I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see…
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My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked…
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I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.
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Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to…
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