"Desiring things widely different for their various tastes."

-- Horace

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“I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting to learn to work in another. At age 76, I really don't have the time to settle down to one medium when there are so many avenues to explore.”
“[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There's a big difference.”
“I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.”
“I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.”
“But feelings aren't like thoughts, they can't be changed at will.”

Source : Dorothy Koomson (2007). “Marshmallows for breakfast”
“The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.”
“Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read coming up as a writer, that helped form my ideas of what it means to be American - and an American writer. I'm always in conversation with them.”
“The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.”

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