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There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence…
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Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula…
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With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page…
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In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.
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In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
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Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants…
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When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in…
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How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.
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The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
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Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
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With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas…
— Henri Desgrange
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Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and…
— Anna Quindlen
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We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along…
— H.G. Wells
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In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
— Timothy Noah
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The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the…
— August Wilson
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Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
— Joanna Scott
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Do you know why we pray for the sick? Because we want Jesus to get what he paid for. Were just passing…
— Bill Johnson
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