The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
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I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.
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I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
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I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
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The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
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If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
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I never felt any different from anyone else though.
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I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
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It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
