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Rather Than Being Taught To Ask Ourselves Who We Are, We Are Schooled To Ask Others. We Are, In Effect, Trained To Listen To Others’ Versions Of Ourselves.

Art Is Not About Thinking Something Up. It Is The Opposite - Getting Something Down.

Creativity Occurs In The Moment, And In The Moment We Are Timeless.

Sometimes The Dying Live More Fiercely And Wisely Than The Rest Of Us. (146)

Writing Is Like Listening To A Melody Line In My Head. Note By Note, It Knows Where It Wants To Go. I Follow It And Lay It Down. I Can Pare It, Shape It, And Polish It Later...my Job Is To Take Down The Dribs And Drabs - To Free-associate, If You Will, Knowing That The Associations Have Their Own Plans For Where We're Going With All This.