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"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."
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"I write to express my love for the humanity."

"It's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man."

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"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

"Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively."

"Stars don't need words to be heard, their beauty speaks for them."

"Dance to the music of your soul."

"Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. All cheer for Shakespearean insults."

"He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation."

"Life is a sacred story."
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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."


"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."


"Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else."


"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."


"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."


"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."


"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."
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