Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
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That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
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I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.
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