“What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.”
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“Suppress no urge, douse no flame, do not be shy.”
“How does my story get closer to us?”
“Do you know, yet, what you're writing about? Do you know what is at stake?”
“Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts…”