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- For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was asked…
- I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature…
- ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water…
- Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it…
- Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed…
- How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself?
- Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made…
- The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives…
- When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind…
- Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape.…
- He held my hand and told me a story about when he was six and threw a rock at a kid's head who was bullying…
- A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone,…
- You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I…
- And so he did the hardest thing he’d ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong