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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

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I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

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The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like th...more

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Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet de la Ménagère,” he began...more