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Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
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I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to…
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He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.
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You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late.…
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You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for…
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Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.
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There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.
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If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died…
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A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions,…
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Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band…
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A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
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There aren't many shy writers left.
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There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving…
— Max Shulman
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I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
— Jay McInerney
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Most people like a little sex in their novels.
— John Sandford
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not…
— Alan Lightman
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There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their…
— Rick Bragg
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Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out…
— Jane Smiley
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Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy…
— Stephen Fry
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's…
— Alan Bennett
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