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“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort.”
— Jul 19, 2019 08:46AM
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“It’s all about life. And in the midst of whatever else we’re in, it’s always about life.”
— Jul 26, 2019 03:48AM
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“Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.”
— Jul 26, 2019 03:46AM
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“‘Trust the tale, not the teller,’ as Stephen King reminded us.”
— Jul 24, 2019 01:37AM
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“It would be a poor sort of world if one were only able to read authors who expressed points of view that one agreed with entirely. It would be a bland sort of world if we could not spend time with people who thought differently, and who saw the world from a different place.”
— Jul 24, 2019 01:36AM
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“If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right. If they tell you that that is all the story is about, they are very definitely wrong. Any story is about a host of things.”
— Jul 21, 2019 02:48AM
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“I write stories to find out what I think about things.”
— Jul 20, 2019 02:20AM
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“I wonder who I would have been, without those shelves, without those people and those places, without books. I would have been lonely, I think, and empty, needing something for which I did not have the words.”
— Jul 19, 2019 10:01AM
