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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
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I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.
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I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with…
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I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of…
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I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.
— Elmore Leonard
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I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
— Ian Hunter
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I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
— Paul Haggis
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
— Mo Yan
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I think writers are very anxious.
— Helen Garner
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed…
— Ian Rankin
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I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking…
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