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A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

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- Now, looking at the pile of pages, she felt a quickening flush of panic at the thought of all her own lost time, the consumed mess she'd made of this draft, and the work that still needed to be done to sort it all out. -

- It was hard to get a sense from the diary of the texture of time passing. No writer, even the most proficient, could re-enact in words the flow of a life lived... -

- An unfinished book, left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will, and ruthless determination to tame it again. -

- Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. -

- Fiction had its own time and logic. That was its power. -

- My last thoughts, measured out in drops of ink. -

- What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?
Then I'll come and get you. -