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I Don't Know What Makes A Writer's Voice. It's Dozens Of Things. There Are People Who Write Who Don't Have It. They're Tone-deaf, Even Though They're Very Fluent. It's An Ability, Like Anything Else, Being A Doctor Or A Veterinarian, Or A Musician.

To Be Human Is To Be In A Story.

The Truth Came Slowly Like A Story Told By People Interrupting Each Other.

Families Hold Each Other In An Iron Grip Of Definition. One Must Break The Grip, Somehow.

We Are, In This Country, More Open To New Ideas. But We Are Also, It Seems To Me, More Inclined To Hail The New As Absolute Truth - Until The Next New Comes Along.