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I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.
Usually my ideas are small.
All wisdom ends in paradox.
Don't waste your time on life.
it's amazing what you can get used to.
My goal in life is to become an adjective.
Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.
I was unemployable when I got out of college.
The zipper opened all the way down our spines.
The time has to be right and the heart willing.
There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
The worst thing about religion was religious people.
Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.
Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend
People don't save other people. People save themselves.
It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.
The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.
Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.
We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.
That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within
Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.
There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.
A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.
Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.
The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.
our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.
To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.
Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.
I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.
You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.
It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.
Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.
I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.
There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
