You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.
タグ: never-forget, never, time, you

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In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.
タグ: writing, writers-on-writing, writers, inspirational
I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't be fun. This shouldn't be comfortable. I'm not looking to make people feel unsafe, but I am looking to make people feel uncomfortable.
タグ: think, i-am, people, work
Let me tell you, if I could write one-tenth as fast as some of my friends, I'd be made. I'd be it. But instead I happen to be, in the tree of life of writers, down at the bottom, with the hematodes.
タグ: tree, you, me, life
I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.
タグ: youth, job, busy, dog
I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it.
タグ: think, my-life, me, life
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