"I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.“


-Richard Powers

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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

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