The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
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Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
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What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
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Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
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