” It’s great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you. “
” What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can’t grow up? “
” Don’t monitor your online savings account in real time. “
” Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview. “
” Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud. “
” Fall into your sentences, enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating. “
” Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it, second, how we can share it. The experience doesn’t stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling – instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you. “
” Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism. “
” Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you’ve written is any good, or anything. “
” At one point, I had a story accepted at the ‘New Yorker,’ which sent off weird bells in people when I told them – ‘Oh,’ they thought, ‘now you are a writer’ – where I really had been for the last 30-odd years. “
” You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don’t know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing. “
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