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> [Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when stories become the things distributed in Xeroxes missing entire pages of line-endings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/beginning-in-middle-school-the-era-of-wide-margined-bible-paged/)

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## More by Ben Dolnick

> [Herta Muller, Mo Yan, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - for many of us, the Nobels have become doubly educational: We simultaneously learn of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/herta-muller-mo-yan-jean-marie-gustave-le-clezio-for-many-of-us-the/)

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> [Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/writing-is-a-sufficiently-lonely-and-mysterious-pastime-that-i-don-t/)

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> [Of course I knew that writing was terrifically hard work and that there was no secret code, as in a video game, that would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/of-course-i-knew-that-writing-was-terrifically-hard-work-and-that/)

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> [Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/literature-is-one-of-those-realms-in-which-giving-out-prizes-can-seem/)

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> [During the couple of years it took to write 'At The Bottom of Everything', I decided, on the sort of hopeful whim that occasionally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/during-the-couple-of-years-it-took-to-write-at-the-bottom-of/)

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> [A short-story collection is harder to formulate pithy sentences about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/a-short-story-collection-is-harder-to-formulate-pithy-sentences-about/)

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> [We humans, just like the animals in our zoos, were born into bodies whose workings are both mechanistically predictable and unfathomably complex. Put in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/we-humans-just-like-the-animals-in-our-zoos-were-born-into-bodies/)

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> [Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/literary-interviews-are-inevitably-packed-with-the-nuts-and-bolts-of/)

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> [A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/a-novel-is-no-mere-assemblage-of-gears-it-is-a-wild-and-living-being/)

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> [True atonement isn't the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/true-atonement-isn-t-the-periodic-shaving-of-karmic-stubble-via/)

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> [Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/beginning-in-middle-school-the-era-of-wide-margined-bible-paged/)

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> [Every morning as I begin my work day, my computer presents me with the usual array of garbage: email, Twitter, updates on the state…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/every-morning-as-i-begin-my-work-day-my-computer-presents-me-with-the/)

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> [Enrichment happened to be my favorite time of day in the Children's Zoo, since it offered relief from the security-guard-esque standing around that makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/enrichment-happened-to-be-my-favorite-time-of-day-in-the-children-s/)

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> [Sometimes I think there ought to be a coat of arms for all of us who listen to Oberst's band Bright Eyes past the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/sometimes-i-think-there-ought-to-be-a-coat-of-arms-for-all-of-us-who/)

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> [To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a chapter in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-dolnick/to-learn-a-piece-on-the-piano-even-a-simple-one-has-proved-every-bit/)

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