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"I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material."
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"I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep."

"While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put."

"Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real."

"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

"Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for."

"I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer."

"You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison."
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"Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing."

"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."

"I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists."

"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."

"I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way."

"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."

"On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in."
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