“We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
― A Woman of Substance
― A Woman of Substance
“I opened my mouth to tell her that nothing could kill me, not now, but she said, 'Not kill you. Destroy you. Dissolve you. You wouldn't die in here, nothing ever dies in here, but if you stayed here for too long, after a while just a little of you would exist everywhere, all spread out. And that's not a good thing. Never enough of you all together in one place, so there wouldn't be anything left that would think of itself as an "I." No point of view any longer, because you'd be an infinite sequence of views and points...”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“This book is against the idea of “finding” an audience and for the idea of writing toward the audience whose expectations matter to you.”
― Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
― Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
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