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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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