If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

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I do not really write novels, but more wobbly things, sets of dreams that come from imagination.

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I think that in order to create a literary work, we simply have to dream our own life - a dream where imagination and memory get mixed.

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The autobiography business turns out in something with many imprecisions, since many times we sin by omission, intentionally or not.

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Writting turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get ir right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.

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Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.

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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again...

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