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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older…
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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
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Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened.…
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Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until…
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You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle…
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The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that…
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Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
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There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things…
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One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one…
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Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the…
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing…
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I started writing stories as a child.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're…
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Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can…
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Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to…
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Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
— Tobias Wolff
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I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities…
— Vittorio Storaro
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Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
— Julianna Baggott
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