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• Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great…
• In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their…
• Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.
• Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what…
• Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.
• Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so…
• Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.
• I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back…
• Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink…
• When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That…
• Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You…
• The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers,…

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