As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
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Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
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A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
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I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
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To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
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The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
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It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.
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When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.
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Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.
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