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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be…
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The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level,…
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Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
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Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever…
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Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for…
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A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth..
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At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They…
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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
— Lord Byron
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I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces…
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All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required…
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On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time…
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An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
— Juvenal
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a…
— William Faulkner
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
— Natascha McElhone
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A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS…
— Darin Strauss
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