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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to...

I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know...

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You...

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of...

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese...

My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met...

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother,...

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all...

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved...

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You...

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of...

I think I've always been somebody since the deaths of my father and brother...

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all...

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