The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
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Nationality: Australian Type: Novelist Born: 1970 |
When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.