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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

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I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?

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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

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You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.

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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.

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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.

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I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

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