"Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a writer sets down can help or harm a commun...

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All we have is compassion and stories.
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"Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight....what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be a writer....
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