- Nov 07, 2020
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- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
God, life changes faster than you think.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020