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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
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I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
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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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Should he ever write an autobiography, he'd call it The Life and Death of a Male Body.
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I was trying to solve the problem of this book. (My Life as a Man) When it seemed I never would, I stopped and wrote Our Gang; when I tried again and still couldn't write it, I stopped and wrote the baseball book; then while finishing the baseball book, I stopped to write The Breast. It was as though I were blasting my way through a tunnel to reach the novel I couldn't write. Each of one's books is a blast, clearing the way for what's next.
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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
Oswald Chambers
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Born:
March 19, 1933
Died:
May 22, 2018
(aged 85)
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