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• What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it…
• The act of composition is a series of discoveries.
• I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when…
• A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's…
• Planning to write is not writing.
• My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much…
• Dad is always hiding in his book.
• The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.
• And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.
• The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or…
• I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

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