"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."

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"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."

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"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."

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"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."

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"I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected."

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