If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.
Everything you try to do in life, of any value, people are going to be saying, 'No, no, no.' You have to have the ability to not see that or hear that.
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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