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"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."

"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given."

"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"
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"It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time."


"Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow."


"There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off."


"Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order."


"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."


"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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