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You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.
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Biography

Author Profession: Author
Nationality: American
Born: December 5, 1934

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Call me the author.
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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
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Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.
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Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.
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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
Joan Didion

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
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Change, Did, Eye, Feel, Go, Had, Sparrow, Swell, Tell, Told

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Change, Did, Eye, Feel, Go, Had, Sparrow, Swell, Tell, Told