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- Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your…
- A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog,…
- A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn…
- Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.
- Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all…
- It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.
- All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
- The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from…
- In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of…
- A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.
- I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into…
- The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time…
- Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a…
- Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great…
- The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal…
- The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in…
- A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all…
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