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Quotable 461

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them.
– Flannery O’Connor

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.
– Anne Lindbergh

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. Of course, it rarely ends that way.
– Kazuo Ishiguro

wandering around
the hardware store
without a passport

warm leap day –
cars without mufflers
out in force

It is hard enough to write books and stories without having to explain them as well.
– Ernest Hemingway