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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come…
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
— Paul Auster
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The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you…
— Warren Adler
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If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of…
— Graham Swift
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For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a…
— Julia Alvarez
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Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive…
— Ken Tucker
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But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank…
— Jeanne Marie Laskas
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
— Eric Maisel
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly…
— George Eliot
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The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things…
— Natalie Goldberg
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The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.
— Mark Twain
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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to…
— Mark Twain
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