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"Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."
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"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."
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"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."
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"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."
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"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."
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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
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"What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth..."
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"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."
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"A writer illuminates the lights of her heart so that everyone can see themselves in the mirror of her thoughts."
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"A territory is only possessed for a moment in time."
Philosophy

"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."
Life

"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
Work

"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."
Society

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."
Life

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
Living

"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
Truth

"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
Society

"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Truth

"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
People
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