"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
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"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it" |
"I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort" |
"I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it" |
"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it" |
"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression" |