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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

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Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them.

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There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

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I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily...more