"I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies."
"I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer."
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Source: Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993
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