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“Kathleen Norris, on the publication of her 78th book.


'All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?”
― Kathleen Norris

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People