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As strange as the new days seemed to us at first, the old days would come to feel very quickly the stranger.
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She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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Maybe loneliness was imprinted in my genes, lying dormant for years but now coming into full bloom.
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There are a lot of things about my career now that are as I imagined, hoped for and worked towards.
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In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.
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And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.
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A single red bucket dangled from a single spoke like the last fruit of summer, or like autumn's final leaf.
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We were, on that day, no different from the ancients, terrified of our own big sky.
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Virtually the second I get home, I change into my "home" clothes - yoga pants and a T-shirt.
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Body-con dresses have never been something I've been into.
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Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?
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We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.
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I prioritise my time so what needs to be done, gets done.
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We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.
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Ours was a sudden bond, the kind possible only for the young or the imperiled.
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To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.
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If you want people to like you you have to buy them things.
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Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble ... that's what I'm in need of.
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But adrenaline, like any other drug, wears off. Panic, like any other flood, must crest.
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How impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, neat as walnut shells.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
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One by one, the minutes poured in - and even a trickle, as we have come to understand, can eventually add up to a flood.
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I'm gonna be so mad when my mood elevators wear off.
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Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
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I felt an urgency like love.
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This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.
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Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?
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I only feel the pressure when we are coming up against a deadline and it's like, actually no we really have to nail this in a week!
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It was the lifeless middle of a bright white night. Our
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The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself.
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I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message.
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She looked lonely through the lens of my telescope, like one of those faraway stars, still visible to our eyes but no longer really there.
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This was the first of the solar superstorms, triggered
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We are so excited for what's next. I think that's what I love most about it, the energy and the excitement that comes from that.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky ... "everything else is a choice.
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I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.
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I should have known by then that it's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass; it's the ones you don't expect at all.
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They were roundly dismissed as extremists - as if nothing so extreme could possibly be true.
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So much that seems harmless in daylight turns imposing in the dark. What else, you had to wonder, was only a trick of light?
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An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.
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Art thrives in times of uncertainty.
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Something was happening to the earth's magnetic field.
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I never knew until then that snow made everything quiet, somehow silencing all the world's noise.
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It did seem amazing, in that moment, that there had ever existed a creature with the power to fly.
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It was a rough crossing, the one from childhood to the next life. And as with any other harsh journey, not everything survived.
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Time moved differently for us that spring: A string of long afternoons was as good as a year.
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You know, an iPhone is fashion everything is fashion.
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This had become a game of ours. We were serious kids made more so by the times.
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I think we lost something else when we lost that crisp rhythm, some general shared belief that we could count on certain things.
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Honey, I'd suck the alcohol out of a deodorant stick!
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
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Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.
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Don't believe everything you hear, okay? You're a smart girl. You can read between the lines.
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But most houses in California were built without roots, leaving us trapped above ground with the light.
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Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not loveit's relief. — Karen Thompson Walker
But I guess every bygone era takes on a shade of myth.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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the day we passed the wheat point. Now it was official: Wheat could no longer grow on this planet without
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My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.
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OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.
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It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.
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Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.
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Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.
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Perhaps the reasons for a man to leave his life were too obvious for him to name.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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My grandfather liked any story in which the unlikely turned out to be true.
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But the past is long, and the future is short.
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