Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
Andre DubusI have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.
Andre DubusFor ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.
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