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There is something about seeing myself improve that motivates and excites me.

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Joyce Carol Oates

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.

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I never change, I simply become more myself.

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Novels usually evolve out of 'character. ' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

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