"To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers."

-- LouAnne Johnson

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“All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.”
“A successful novel should interrupt the readerâ€™s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.”
“I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love what you are doing, you are able to do extraordinary things that you yourself didn't think you could do before.”
“I donâ€™t believe thereâ€™s a hole in the ground with demons in it but I could be wrong. Hell is all around us â€“ itâ€™s the way we treat each other and the way we treat the Earth. We already live in it,”
“It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.”
“I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.”
“I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.”

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“Each moment is a place you've never been.”

Source : Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.104, Knopf

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