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“I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That’s the intrigue of doing it -- it’s a process of discovery. You get to discover what you’re going to say and what it’s going to mean.”
― T.C. Boyle

“Self-deception is a pessimistic definition of optimism.”
― William T. Vollmann, Europe Central

“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that rereading holds out the prospect of new subtleties, inversions, secret codes and ineffabilities”
― William T. Vollmann, Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement, and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater

“My mistakes are my life.”
― Samuel Beckett