I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
Tags: own, who, like, style
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