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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.

John Irving

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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Practice Religious Two
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Care Rumor Stories
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don’t mean that you can’t also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.
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Fun Hurt Mean Stories
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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Memorable Thinking Trying
You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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Hands Nice Squeezing
…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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Fashion Real Term Work

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.

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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.

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