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"All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning."
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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."
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"The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write."

"I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered."

"I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia."

"I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience."

"I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent."

"I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night."

"I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer."
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