"The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story."

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"The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

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Elizabeth Hardwick, American Critic

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"Books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life."

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"Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions."

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"Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it."

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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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"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."

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