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I don't believe in happy endings.

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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

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I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

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I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

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I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

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I never cared about money.

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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

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I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

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I'm not a quitter.

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If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

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In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

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Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

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Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

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My characters are always on the outside the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

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My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

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Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

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One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

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There are so many separate selves no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

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What you risk reveals what you value.

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