"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."

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"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."

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"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."

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"My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten."

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"God, life changes faster than you think."

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