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- Belief
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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
- Nothing
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Nothing keeps its promise.
- Fluency
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Fluency can be a sign that nothing is happening; fluency can actually be my signal to stop, while being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it's still even around.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.
- Go
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My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a century. But only a madman would go to the trouble of writing 31 books in order to affirm his hatred.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I see it, my focus has never been on masculine power rampant and triumphant but rather on the antithesis: masculine power impaired.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.
- History
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At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House.' But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school or at work.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020