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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

William Faulkner

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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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