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• Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we…
• A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
• It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be…
• A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and…
• Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that…
• So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.
• All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was…
• It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but…

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