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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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"What can you do to ensure that your voice value translates into impression value?"
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"Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings."
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"Heaven resonates when one sings wholeheartedly."
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"You won't write, won't ya??I just focus on the negative!"
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"There are things known-things experienced, felt, and understood-that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice."
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"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."
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"Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are."
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"Snooty knew measly talked muchly."
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"If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs."
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"Find a voice in a whisper."
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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."
Family
"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
"There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off."
Joy
"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."
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