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"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books..."
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"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."
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"I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you."
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"I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future."
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"I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious."
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"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."
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"I often like to enjoy the beauty of a beautiful book."
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"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
Time
"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
Travel
"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
Technology
"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
Poetry
"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
Poems
"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
Time
"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
Hope
"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
Literature
"I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."
Talk
"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
Literature
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