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"Love deep is inexhaustible like a vast ocean."

"Love without reason-bloom without season."
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"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."

"To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you."

"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely."

"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art."

"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible."

"I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things."

"I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer."
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