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That was always the hardest part, missing you.
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You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.
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Strange how one minute life was a certain way and then it was another, and you couldn't remember what you'd done to make it all happen.
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But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that's all a man has to measure his life, and it's plenty.
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Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.
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A lot of life, Michael had learned, came down to trying to fix things that weren't fixable.
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Our place had just four rooms and voices had a way of carrying, you couldn't sneeze in one room without somebody in another saying bless you.
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We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles.
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Who is the monster now?
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Nothing lasts forever." "Some things do." "What kind of things?" "The things we like to remember. The love we've felt for people.
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The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.
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It was love, and only love, that opened your eyes.
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All his life he had wanted to be known by just one person. That's what love was, he decided. Love was being known.
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The guy could sell sunlamps in a cancer ward.
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Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.
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I like creating villains.
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All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.
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What was childhood if not a passage from light to dark, of the soul's slow drowning in an ocean of ordinary matter? During
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My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.
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The world had a way of speaking to you if you let it; the trick was learning to hear.
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Writing is a job: you must show up.
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This was their way; a lot was said by saying nothing. She
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What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age?
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Michael lifted a menu from a stack on the counter and opened it. 'What's meatloaf?' I get the meat part, but a loaf of it?
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We made war on the planet, and the planet fought back.
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For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.
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And isn't silence, in its way, a good sign? That everything is well, that the ship is still steaming safely away from shore?
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There were times when you couldn't fix what was broken with words, and this looked like one of those times.
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We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.
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All was a ruin, yet the world did not seem to know or care. In
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We search for ourselves in our surroundings, and everything I saw was either brand-new or falling apart. Most
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It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw. Holding
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The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.
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Wolgast leaned back in his chair and realized how exhausted he was. It always came upon him like this, like the sudden unclenching of a fist.
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Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone.
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There were people who were like this, the ones who could not be ruffled or else didn't show it, who possessed great internal reservoirs of calm.
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Mankind had built a world that would take hundred years to die. A century for the last lights to go out.
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How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.
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From small mistakes come great catastrophes;
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Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up.
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Absolution is not the same as understanding.
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And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.
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I could have held his hand.
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Drinking myself blind seemed like the next logical step.
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Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.
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Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand - once passed, I thought, time was all the same, all over.
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The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.
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Yet, to yield, to accept death: the mind forbade it. The mind demanded, against all sense, to go on. Fanning
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So, at the last, a story.
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To have a child was to receive the gift of true immortality - not time stopped, as it had stopped in Amy, but time continuing and everlasting.
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I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.
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The lie had worked so far, but Lacey felt its softness, like a floor of rotten boards beneath her feet.
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Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
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There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present.
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I was very much a child of the Cold War.
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So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.
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I died and then was brought to life, the oldest tale there is. I
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This girl from nowhere. This Amy NLN. Who was alpha, who omega? Who the beginning and who the end?
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City of memories, city of mirrors.
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If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.
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And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's?
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What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.
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They always come home.
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Don't be afraid to ask if you're on the right train.
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I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.
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Because that's what heaven is ... it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.
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And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
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We are born faithful and afraid, when it should be the opposite; it is life that teaches us how much we stand to lose.
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All night his mind seemed to skip over the surface of sleep like a stone upon water, never quite breaking the skin. As
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It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust. A
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What is home but a place where you are truly known?
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My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.
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I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.
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Doubt is human nature. It's what we do with it that matters.
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Too many what-ifs are just a way to keep yourself up at night, and there's not enough decent sleep to go around.
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I've never stopped and never ever will. But the words got tangled up somewhere between his mouth and his brain, and the moment slipped away.
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