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- It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want…
- Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no…
- You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't…
- And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known…
- Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we…
- I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. "DON'T SOUND…
- I don't want you to describe to me—not ever—what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you…
- What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support…
- Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them…
- If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.
- When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes,…
- It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to…
- so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no…
- Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.
- No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You…
- My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist…
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