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The words ran away with me.

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Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

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That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

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It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption, the huge disparity between the times toge...