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If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re ...more

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I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and ge...more

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And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a de...more

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Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always be smarter writers than ...more

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I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was a warm summer's night, dark, and moonless. There w...more

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People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

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The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then ...more

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So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made...more

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In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. There was something that someone said at my first Mi...more

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And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the...more

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Shadow was a couple of a hundred yards away from his motel, and he walked there, breathing the cold air, past red and yellow and blue lights advertisi...more

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As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

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Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

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I know a charm that can cure pain and sickness, and lift the grief from the heart of the grieving.I know a charm that will heal with a touch.I know a ...more

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People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.