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- Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham…
- You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a…
- Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.…
- It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.
- (I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate, and the subjects that I…
- I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
- All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the…
- What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at…
- ...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day,…
- I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a…
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