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I think writers are often terrifying to normal people— that is, to nonwriters in a capitalist system —for this reason: there is almost nothing they will not sell in order to have the time to write. … In a room full of writers of various kinds, time is probably the only thing that can provoke widespread envy, more than acclaim. Acclaim, which of course means access to money, which then becomes time.

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“Mixed feelings were confusing feelings, and I didn't feel confused except as to why it was so hard for everyone to understand that I existed. Living this way felt like discovering your shoe was nailed to the floor, but only one of them, so that you paced, always, a circle of possibility, defined by the limited imaginations of others.”