Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

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So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architec…

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Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing wor…

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In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these bra…

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In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

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As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's ofte…

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Sorrow can be a bully.

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In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drow…

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And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, …

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I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way b…

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