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"That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program."
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"Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul."
"Authentic love is deciding to live on a one-way street where all the arrows point down the street and not a single one of them point back up to where I'm standing."
"One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is."
"Dearest," she murmured, "as you know, there was a time when it didn't matter to me whether I married a man I loved or not... it seemed enough just to get my family out of the desperate situation we were in. But when I thought about what it would be like to share a bed with my husband... to spend the rest of my life with him... I knew Simon was the only choice." She paused, and sudden tears glittered her eyes. Beautiful, self-possessed Annabelle, who hardly ever cried. "When I'm ill," she continued in a husky voice, "when I'm afraid, when I need something, I know he will move heaven and earth to make everything all right. I trust him with every fiber of my being. And when I see the child we created, the two of us mingled forever in her... my God, how grateful I am that I married Simon."
"The actor, writer, and director Woody Allen once said, "80% of success is just showing up! You Can Show Up By . . . Participating. Sharing ideas. Being dependable. Keeping your word. Taking the initiative. Volunteering to be of assistance. Being there when a friend needs you. Raising your hand and asking questions. Attending your children's sporting events. Taking your place and claiming your space. Demonstrating that you have something to offer."
"On the other side of self-doubt comes a confidence from faith in the process. Even though our destination may be a long way off, each day we rise with a subtle smile as if we have already achieved it, because, when we are truly committed to a task, we already have."
"I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything."
"I don't expect you to fight over me... But I do expect you to fight for me... for us."
"I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours."
"Your life must not be static, you must keep on moving forward towards the higher goal. No obstacle can stop a man who is committed to a single calling or to a single prize."
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"And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers."
"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."
"Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing."
"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
"Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."
"I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion."
"I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels."
"But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors."
"Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again."
"Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else."
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