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• Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
• That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and…
• Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the…
• A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know…
• By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it…
• I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies…
• Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
• Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
• Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
• My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys.…
• You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but…
• You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

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