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What is the pattern of change?
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In Literature, only trouble is interesting.
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Interesting
Literature
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Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.
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Mind
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The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.
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The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.
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Powerful
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I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant.
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Dull
Judgment
Unclear
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In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death.
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Sex
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What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.
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Imaginative
Practice
What Matters
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Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.
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Apples
Children
Land
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If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.
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Fiction
May
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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.
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Book
Spinning
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Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It’s just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write.
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Reflection
Regret
Writing
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Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing diapers-figure out how to make writing an integral part of your life. Publication is good, and gives you the courage to go on, but publication is not as important as the act of writing.
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Giving
Important
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Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to luminous chaos. Loving the power of grammar and the fine distinctions of language, I seek the part of the mind I didn't know was there, the part 'sheer,' 'no-manfathomed,' 'cliffs of fall.
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Girl
Fall
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The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre.
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Ideas
People
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