Fine artistic things seem always to be done in the face of difficulties, and the rocky soil, which seems to give the finest…
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Quotes on reading and writing and passages from books I love
Many years ago, he had taken the passion he felt for Susan and folded it in half, so he no longer had a…
Read MoreWhen we read, we start at the beginning and continue until we reach the end. When we write, we start in the middle…
Read MoreFor a writer, there’s no such thing as an exemplary life. It’s a fact that certain writers do good work at the bottom…
Read MoreWe are two dry stretches of country. We carry the marks of millions of years, from the volcanoes, the ice ages, droughts, fires,…
Read More…I teach…uncontainment…what it is like to build a story in your body from the words to the sentences, to the paragraphs, to the…
Read MoreThough we can condemn … the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books, we are powerless when it comes to…
Read MoreEveryone is related to the world through something. I through words… before I stopped writing, words had become treacherous and untrustworthy to me….
Read MoreThe life that produces writing can’t be written about. It is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below…
Read MoreThe question any novel is trying to answer is, Is life worth living? That’s a major question, a huge question, but the best…
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