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- Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
- Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to…
- Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.
- Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
- I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you…
- I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I…
- I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
- Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing…
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