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“Theres nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.”
“There’s nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.”
“And youre disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.”
“And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.”
“The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I dont think the author should be.”
“The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don’t think the author should be.”
“We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.”
“Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.”
“I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or a seq...”
“Thats why its difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.”
“Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear.”
“That’s why it’s difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.”
