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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

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What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

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On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.

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My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying som...more

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

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Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and leave be...more