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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be…
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The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level,…
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Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
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Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever…
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Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for…
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A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth..
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At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They…
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Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not…
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Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with…
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The market is the only critic that matters.
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The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.
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Be a doer and not a critic.
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Now everyone is a critic.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did…
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A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.
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