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"Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it."
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"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
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"My liberty depends on you being free, too."
"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."
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"Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow."
"Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing."
"Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else."
"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."
"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."
"Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order."
"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."
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