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"I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words."
"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
"Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know."
"When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy."
"Silence is the invisible door to God. Silence is the inner door to become one with God."
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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"I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second."
"I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer."
"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."
"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."
"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."
"I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover."
"'s one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling."
"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."
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