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"Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be."

"Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives."

"The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running."

"I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track."

"When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much."

"I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises."

"I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running."

"Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!"
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"To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose."

"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass."

"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it."

"Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life."

"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation."

"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."

"Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame."

"Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists."
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