“I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've already finished four hundred pages and realize the first hundred aren't working.” IfsFirstsRealizingFourStudentsPagesHundredHarderFinished Author:Yiyun Li
“What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.” IfsWayWritingLongLetting GoDistanceReplacedLong Way Book:Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life Source: Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
“She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.” PeopleIfsSometimesDesireFallStrongWonderMinutesFalling In LoveFrightened Book:A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories Source: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories