"The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a tremendous amount of personal power."

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To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.

— Joyce Carol Oates