Word: mattering
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Speaking of writing to process things, you're pretty unflinching. Is there ever something that just feels too personal? I have found that no matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous circumstances that I have created for myself, they know the way I respond is probably what they would...
...that rang true to people, like good novels. I haven't even read any of those memoirs. I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers. (See the top 10 literary hoaxes...
...matter how insignificant you are in the [publishing] organization, people will ask you how they can get their book published,” he said. “[I found out that] you had to very quickly pretend you know what you’re talking about... to have this type of authority to give this person an answer to get him off your back...
...when the Harvard team arrived, beating Yale was a simple matter of showing up—which the Yale team didn't manage to do, thereby forfeiting the match...
...evenly distributed on both sides of an issue. After all, if the same number of people exist who are wrongly convinced that healthcare reform is dangerous as are wrongly convinced that it is a good idea, the tie will be broken by the informed. And no matter what each side may say, neither left nor right has a monopoly on political ignorance...