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I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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