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

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My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each...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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If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

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Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

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I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.

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It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

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Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he ...more

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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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Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

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Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

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I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond rec...more

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Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

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And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.