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Late bloomer’ is another way of saying ‘slow learner.

Ben Fountain

I thought when I started writing that I’d have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that wasn’t going to happen, I became increasingly frustrated and unsure of myself.
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Book Writing Years
At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.
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Certain Felt Keep Pleasure Points
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That’s a great way to freeze up.
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Self Thinking Writing
You’d think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people.
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Life Struggle Things Thinking
It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me – that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.
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Looks Writing Years
Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.
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Long Polite Want
So many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.
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Another Common Drive Genetics History Protect
If you could figure out how to live with family then you’d gone a long way toward finding your peace.
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Gone Long Way
It’s amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.
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Courses Natural Sticks
Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.
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Country Everything Talent
From about the age of 15 or 16 I’d had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I’d done enough in college to satisfy myself that I had a knack for it – I wouldn’t call it “talent” – though I wondered if I’d ever have the guts to actually commit to it.
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Age College Writing
Late bloomer’ is another way of saying ‘slow learner.
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Late Learners Way
I got brilliant stories from people who’d never set foot in an MFA program and had published very little, and terrible stories from people who’d published a lot and had all the credentials. It was all over the map and that was part of the fun.
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Feet Fun People
I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.
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Effort Eight Years
It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.
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Day Honored Worst
There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.
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Moments Perfection World

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