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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.

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Amy Hempel

There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.

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It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.

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I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?

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I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.

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I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.

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