I was a shell. Empty. Put me to your ear and you would hear the distant rush of a ghost ocean… The slightest…
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Quotes on reading and writing and passages from books I love
A more truthful dust-jacket sketch would say that the author…learned to be alone in a room, learned to throw stuff out, learned to…
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In the beginning, a piece doesn’t seem to be made of sentences and pages, it seems to be made of colors and textures…at…
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Reading, real reading, is a strenuous and pleasurable contact sport. Maureen Howard, The Enduring Commitment of a Faithful Storyteller
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As a writer, I’m always a little annoyed when people attempt to interpret my fiction autobiographically. But I don’t mind doing it about…
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Plots are interesting, characters are fascinating, scenery can be totally enveloping, but the real art is the deep structure, the way that information…
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Time isn’t an orderly stream. Time isn’t a placid lake recording each of our ripples. Time is viscous. Time is a massive flow….
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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. Madeleine L’Engle
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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millionsmillions: Inevitably, as one addresses different communities of readers in different countries one tends to write differently for them, not necessarily to please,…
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