All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

All of them?

Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.


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I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
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She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
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Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, t...
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Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...
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Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had ...
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Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It...
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What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which i...
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There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
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Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so...
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the brig...
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The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by ...
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There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
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The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
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Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Secon...
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Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
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We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
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The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betr...
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Put yourself in a different room, that's what the mind is for.
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose
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I think of this as a democratizing device.
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I'm curious. If someone says 'Don't open that door', I'm right there!
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The main thing is to keep yourself awake [on writing]
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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
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He's very in depth, on the dark side. He's interested in structure and how things work. After readin...
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The Orange prize has been pivotal in the careers of many women writers - it's given them that extra ...
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Just think of it as a very, very long pen.
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Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one
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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
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Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are hum...
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They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the Un...
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Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
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Also I could hear Amanda’s voice: Why are you being so weak? Love’s never a fair trade. So Jimmy...
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I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices,...
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Life is warped. I'm just in sync.
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I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it...
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We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.
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My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out...
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Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important thing...
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Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
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Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't chan...
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She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why...
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The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more...
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