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I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man an...more

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Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, y...more

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I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.

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It's amazing how resilient people are, and how the things that didn't come true become,after a while, simply the way things are.

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Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, y...more

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But he told me that most of the time he stayed on the boardwalk, facing the water, just the way we were sitting now even when it got cold and he had t...more

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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I mi...more

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Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substa...more

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The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's...more