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"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
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"Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written."
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"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
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"The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone."
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"He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things."
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"I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry."
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"Rust through washing never became white."
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"Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres."
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"Patience is what is needed to see through any process of production."
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"All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue."
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"Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird."
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"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible."
Hope
"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have."
Truth
"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
Process
"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."
Friendship
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do."
Art
"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."
Enemy
"Education is not so important as people think."
Education
"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."
Friendship
"That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things."
Woman
"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."
War
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