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"Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."

"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

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"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."
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"There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall."
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