"Relationships do not preclude issues of morality."

Relationship, Morality, Relationships

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"Relationships do not preclude issues of morality."

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"When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough."

Creativity, Idea, Writing

"I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them."

Reading, Right, Writing

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"He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head."

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