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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you…
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed
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Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs,…
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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
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Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any…
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It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable…
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I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.
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In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to…
— John Edensor Littlewood
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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
— Robert Morgan
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As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning…
— Joan Didion
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The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as…
— Colm Toibin
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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