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“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.”
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Yes, she was the girl playing basketball with all the boys in the park, collecting cans by the side of the road, keeping secret pet kittens in an empty boxcar in the woods, walking alone at night through the rail yards, teaching her little sister how to kiss, reading out loud to herself, so absorbed by the story, singing sadly in the tub, building a fort from the junked cars out in the meadow, by herself in the front row at the black-and-white movies or in the alley, gazing at an eddy of cigarette stubs and trash and fall leaves, smoking her first cigarette at dusk by a pile of dead brush in the desert, then wishing at the stars--she was all of them, and she was so much more that just just her that I still didn't know.”
― The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories
― The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories
“Until her last moment on earth she was unaware that her irreparable fate as a disturbing woman was a daily disaster.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
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