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What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.

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Alice McDermott

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.

Entire, Language, Tools, World
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The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we're gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves, and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.

Control, Echoes, Gone, Life, Memories, Right

We are surrounded by story.

Stories, Story, Surrounded

In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of violence or tragedy or titillation or grossness or even sentimentality can move us, but how the written word elicits delight - what Nabokov calls that shiver in the spine - is much harder to calculate and define.

Elicits, Lies, Lying, Moving, Reading, Tragedy

A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.

Everybody, Good Writers, Knows, Sooner Or Later, Writer

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

Differences, Firsts, Make, Students, Telling, Worry
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