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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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"Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words."
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"Stars don't need words to be heard, their beauty speaks for them."
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"You can certainly take the easy road and use the predictable and boring defaults like: How are you doing? How about this weather? What do you do for a living? Hi. My name is _________. What's yours? Blah, blah, blah, blah . . .Break out of the defaults you have been using for years. Shake it up. Make it fun. Make it memorable. Dive in with more engagement and interaction. Taking the initiative to be more creative will help you build a bridge to close the gap."
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"There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can."
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"Write your sacred story."
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"So, show the world, make it seeYou are you, and I am me."
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"Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are."
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"Some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other."
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"I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores."
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"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless."
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"One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love."
Love
"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."
People
"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."
Expression
"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
"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."
Collaboration
"Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else."
Time
"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
Self
"Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."
Work
"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
"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."
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