“ The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness. ”
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“ In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and the pleasure of ordering them, reordering them, weighing one against another. Pleasure also in the imagination of the story, the feeling that it could mean something. Mostly I was glad to find out that I could write at all. In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and selfmastery and faith. It demands those things of you, then gives them back with a little extra, a surprise to keep you coming. It toughens you and clears your head. I could feel it happening. I was saving my life with every word I wrote, and I knew it. ”
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“ a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life. ”
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“ There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it. ”
- Tobias Wolff- Copy
“ In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and the pleasure of ordering them, reordering them, weighing one against another. Pleasure also in the imagination of the story, the feeling that it could mean something. Mostly I was glad to find out that I could write at all. In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and selfmastery and faith. It demands those things of you, then gives them back with a little extra, a surprise to keep you coming. It toughens you and clears your head. I could feel it happening. I was saving my life with every word I wrote, and I knew it. ”
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“ a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life. ”
- Tobias Wolff- Copy
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“ a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life. ”
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“ We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to. ”
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“ Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it. ”
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“ Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it. ”
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“ We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to. ”
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“ Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say. ”
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“ Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say. ”
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“ When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. ”
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“ When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. ”
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“ We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to. ”
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“ We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to. ”
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“ We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to. ”
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“ Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it. ”
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“ We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to. ”
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“ Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity. ”
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“ Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say. ”
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“ When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. ”
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“ We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. ”
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