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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.

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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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