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Writing is a struggle against silence.

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Anything can make us look, only art can make us see.

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Writing is both mask and unveiling.

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Fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

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Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.