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- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
- I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you…
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in…
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's…
- Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage…
- I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It…
- Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other…
- I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse…
- The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
- When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on…
- The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to…
- Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was…
- When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters,…
- Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with…
- The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders…
- As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to…
- All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's…
- We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
- Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones;…
- What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we…
- Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in…
- Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die…
- The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into…
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