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Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Secret History of Science Fiction by James Patrick Kelly
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The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
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Woolf is one of those writers whose prose makes me want to jump up and skip across the room. Admittedly this is one of those things which many readers would find immeasurably dull; there's nothing easy (and by the standard of these days, readily acc...more
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Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
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The Collected Stories by Grace Paley
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Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
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Neil Gaiman
“...set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.”
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Ernest Hemingway
“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
Ernest Hemingway

Sharon Olds
“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. ”
Sharon Olds

Grace Paley
“…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.”
Grace Paley

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