When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
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The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.Guillermo Cabrera Infante
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
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I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.
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Puns are a form of humor with words.
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No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
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