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> [Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-kennedy/aspiring-writers-should-read-the-entire-canon-of-literature-that/)

[William Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-kennedy/)

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> [I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/i-published-my-first-poem-in-the-paris-review-in-1980/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/i-d-been-writing-poems-for-many-years-but-most-of-them-i-didn-t-like/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [“I'm a California boy. I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me. (Paris Review Interview)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-m-a-california-boy-i-don-t-tell-anyone-how-to-write-and-no-one/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

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> [“If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.” \[ Paris Review , interview with Jodi Daynard,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/if-you-criticize-what-you-re-doing-too-early-you-ll-never-write-the-2/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

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> [This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/this-to-me-is-the-secret-comedy-of-all-author-interviews-down-through/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

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