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"He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates."

"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."

"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more."

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

"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."

"A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person."

"Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."
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