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Benjamin Moser
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“What is too much experience?”
Bret Easton Ellis
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“You can’t lie anymore”
Charles Yu
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“Reality is taking notes from fiction”
Chuck Palahniuk
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“You can’t just be a spectator”
Colson Whitehead
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“All our former selves are still there”
David Sedaris
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“What do I write about now?”
David Doubilet
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“My favorite picture is the one I haven’t taken”
David J. Peterson
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“Does it fit the culture?”
Deborah Landau
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“The familiar is made strange again”
Dennis Lehane
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“It’s a question of interest”
Don Winslow
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“I like being scorned”
Gabriela Garcia
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“There are pieces of me in everything”
Garry Kasparov
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“There’s no more room for bluffs”
Gerhard Steidl
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“I turn everything upside down”
Ira Glass
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“All you can do is make work”
Irvine Welsh
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“Failure is more interesting”
Jon Ronson
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“I’m interested in hypocrisy”
Jonathan Safran Foer
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“You have to waste a lot to have a little”
Jonathan Lethem
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“Be a dark horse!”
Kazuo Ishiguro
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“I’ll take as long as I need”
Lily King
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“You don’t know until you start writing”
Maja Lunde
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“I never start with a message”
Margo Jefferson
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“Criticism demands authority”
Michael Pollan
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“We vote with our forks”
Miranda July
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“I am making more room in the world”
Nick Hornby
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“You can wait forever for the muse”
Rachel Kushner
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“There’s this lens over life”
Robert Harris
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“Power is of endless interest”
Salman Rushdie
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“The curse of an interesting life”
Sam Harris
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“Mindfulness is being divorced from its real potential”
Sheila Heti
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“My life only changes when a book is done”
Stewart O’Nan
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“It’s not just dots on a page”
Susan Goldberg
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“It’s about doing the right thing”
Sylvia Earle
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“Everything on earth connects”
T.C. Boyle
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“We are animals”
Tony Wheeler
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“I want to try somewhere different”
Yann Martel
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“You have to open yourself”
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