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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, change your mind."
- To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
- Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind…
- If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with…
- It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.
- To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose…
- I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what…
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of…
- I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where…
- Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere
- We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to…
- Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the…
- In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it…
- We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select…
- Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.
- I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at. What I see and what I fear.
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