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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."
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"Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors."
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"Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth."
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"Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas."
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"One note does not make a symphony, one artist does not make an orchestra."
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"When building your team look for people who are disciplined even before they came to the Lord."
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"Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration."
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"I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days."
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"The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour."
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"I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them."
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"From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration."
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"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."
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"I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him."
Love
"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."
People
"You don't teach information in a writing workshop."
Information
"Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time."
Change
"I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into."
Work
"Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing."
People
"The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story."
Reading
"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."
Time
"When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else."
Writing
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