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Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.
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My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.
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It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
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To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective
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Fiction is socially meaningful.
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People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.
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[H]e had this view of things - that most human activity was utter folly, his own included, and that his existence in the world made others nervous.
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I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
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Oh, to be young. To still be one's own hero.
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my religion is home and all that attends it.
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I think of myself as a really happy person.
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The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself.
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Losing is like knowing that, in the movie scene where a thousand die but the hero lives, you're one of the obliterated.
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There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.
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My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.
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Today and in a good winter mood, someone not subject to seasonal affective disorder, someone with a generous
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When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
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The place felt sinister, though. Your imagination can get the better of you where a road ends against a forest.
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It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.
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The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.
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He hoped it would snow recklessly and bring to the island the impossible winter purity, so rare and precious, he remembered fondly from his youth.
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I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.
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There were guys who prayed at Tarawa,' said Ishmael. 'They still got killed, Mother. Just like the guys who didn't pray. It didn't matter either way.
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The rain fell with such fervor that the world disappeared.
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Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
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What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.
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I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.
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What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
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I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.
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A literary achievement of the highest order.
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The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred.
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Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.
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Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.
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That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty
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To acclimate students to misery under the rubric that so doing prepares them for life is a cynical notion - and a horrifying one.
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