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I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged the least with the rest of the world's needs.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Engaged Least Me Most Needs Part Private Rest Self Think World Writes I Think

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When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I'm a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me - it is a new way to see it.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: After Between Creates Distance Loud Me Myself New New Way Out Read Reader See Tend Text Uncomfortable Very Way Write I Write

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I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people's interiors - there was a great deal of space between people's lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Access Before Between Cell Cell Phones Deal Facebook Great Great Deal Grew Growing Growing Up Had Imagining Internet Lives Lot People Phones Small Small Town Space Spent Think Time Town Up I Think

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I've been interested in the idea of forgiveness and the necessity of it. I think of it as the most critical piece of any relationship, whether that be business, or romantic, or familial. We fail each other. We make mistakes. If we contract to go on after those mistakes, forgiveness is involved. Forgiveness is required.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: After Any Been Business Contract Critical Each Fail Forgiveness Go Idea Interested Involved Make Mistakes Most Necessity Other Piece Relationship Required Romantic Think Those Whether I Think

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I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Agents How Idea Literary No Idea Often People Them Think Truthfully Very

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There are times when I'll send a manuscript to an editor, and I'll think it is the most likely project I've ever sent them. And they might call me the next morning and say they couldn't tolerate it. That happens so frequently that I've given up any expectation of knowing what anybody's going to like.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Any Anybody Call Editor Ever Expectation Frequently Given Going Happens Knowing Like Likely Manuscript Me Might Morning Most Next Next Morning Project Say Send Sent Them Think Times Tolerate Up

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Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Agent Beam Consequence Else Everything Everything Else Family Happy Life Married Me My Life Ongoing Part Project Really Recovery Support Write Writing

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I'm rereading Jenny Offill's 'Dept. of Speculation.' I love it, and she's just a magician. Line by line and paragraph by paragraph, it's mesmerizing and so intricately plotted and so nimble.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Just Line Love Magician Mesmerizing Nimble Paragraph She Speculation I Love

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Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything that requires practice. Like tennis or a foreign language, it gets easier the more you do it. But like all beginnings, it can be awkward. You stumble, you worry, and then there are unexpected moments of grace that give you the courage to keep going.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Anything Awkward Bars Beginnings Benefits Courage Dinner Dinner Parties Easier Foreign Foreign Language Gets Give Going Grace Keep Keep Going Language Like Moments More Parties Practice Requires Restaurants Stumble Tennis Then Unexpected World Worry You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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