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"That's what writing is. You don't want to know what you're doing, you must never know what you're doing, and the surprise is the good stuff."

"We all grow up with a love of books, and we think that a certain book at a certain time can save our lives."

"Ask no guarantees, ask for no security. There never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that."

"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you will never learn."

"My wife says books aren't real."
"Thank God for that. You can shut them, say 'Hold on a moment.' You play god to it."

"Good writers touch life often"

"But I failed to speak, and thus became guilty myself."