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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.

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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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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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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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