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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
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"So the lover must struggle for words."
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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
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"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."
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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer."
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"Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is."
Anthropology
"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
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"I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world."
American
"Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue."
Feminism
"Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology."
Anthropology
"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
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"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it."
Anthropology
"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
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"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
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