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I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

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I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

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You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

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I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song.

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There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.

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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

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I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.

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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

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The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

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