When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.
タグ: fat, experience, you, women

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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
タグ: your, book, time, you
I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.
タグ: just, never, think, personality
Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.
タグ: connection, small, child, past
Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in a state where you're off balance. You seldom feel serene or settled.
タグ: think, happy, people, you
As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
タグ: looking, world, yourself, you
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