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Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.

An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.

It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.p 284

What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

Ils ne savaient peut-être pas que les histoires s'écrivaient le plus souvent avec des matériaux usagés et que l'auteur devait donner à tout cela l'allure du neuf.