.. What is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?..
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.. It's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told..
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.. All kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull..
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.. If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..
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..I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do..
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.. To know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits
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.. At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete..
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.. Writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth..
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.. No good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one..
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.. You mean you don't fit characters into a plot? Excatly..
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