Porochista Khakpour Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Time kept on and on like the cheapest toilet paper.”
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“I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years and years fine-tuning, revising, editing, etc. What inspires me? Who knows. I am not inspired that much. That’s why I write long form fiction—I am not much of a short story writer. Ideas come seldom, but when a good one comes, I really stick to it and see it out. I’m a problem-solver—I've never thrown out an entire manuscript; I've always forced myself to repair it until it was a lovable thing again.”
-- Porochista Khakpour -
“But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save.”
-- Porochista Khakpour
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