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My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

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Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

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Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

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The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

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The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

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The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

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To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

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Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

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Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.

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It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 5th, 1953

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