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• ‟ Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

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• ‟ The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.

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• ‟ I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.

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• ‟ What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

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• ‟ Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

  - Joan Didion