"There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went."
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"Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again."
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"Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home."
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"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
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"Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic."
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"Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."
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"I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you."
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"I tend to scare myself."
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"It is the tale, not he who tells it."
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"I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now."
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"I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day."
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"Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written."
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"They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?"
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"Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth."
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"If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered."
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"And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that."
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"I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids."
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"Small towns harbor small imaginations."
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"You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them."
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"Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything."
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