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All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's esc...more

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When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of fr...more

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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no ...more

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A word after a word after a word is power.

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Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out...more

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Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either, but it was a reass...more

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In the end, we'll all become stories

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That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies.

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Bless you. Be careful. Anyone intending to meddle with words needs such blessing, such warning.

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The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some...more

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I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it….By telling you anythin...more

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We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.We lived in the gaps ...more

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It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are t...more

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Writing poetry is a state of free float

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You learn to write by reading and writing, writing and reading. As a craft it's acquired through the apprentice system, but you choose your own teache...more