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And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

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I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write ...more

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There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed OK ...more

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Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doin

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All writing is rewriting.

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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the ...more

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I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

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Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.

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I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

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I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the b...more

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Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she becam...more

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A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

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The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.

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The town was paper, but the memories were not.

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We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.