My God The English language is a form of communication Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill Words aren't only bombs and bullets no, they're little gifts, containing meanings
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The long haul kind of wearies me, the thought of doing a book for two or three or years and you have to rule so much else out of your life. I always knew that literature satisfied a taste for considering life in a certain way, but that it wasn't a guide to living.Philip Roth
There's no way in hell cash is about to come roaring back into the market.
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It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
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