"The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal."
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"The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal."
"I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time."
"I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal."
"I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written."