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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
The soul is not a thing you can have. It is a way of being in the world.
Writing is not about being clever. It's about being honest.
The best stories are the ones that leave you with more questions than answers.
The people in my stories are not heroes or villains. They are just people trying to get through life.
I don't write to explain. I write to explore.
It's not the writer's job to tell you how to feel. It's the writer's job to tell you something and make you feel it.
The real struggle is not between good and evil but between pain and pleasure.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing—not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens.
"Writing is a matter of patience and stubbornness, not talent."
"Love is a kind of pain. If you don’t feel pain, it’s not love."
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
