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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
Anaïs Nin
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“It’s very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way — just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, I know I can do it. But a novel is different. A novel is more like falling in love. You don’t say, ‘I’m going to fall in love next Tuesday, I’m going to begin my novel.’ The novel has to come to you. It has to feel just like love.”
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“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”