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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
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"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
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"In true prose everything must be underlined."
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"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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"I'm a better polemicist in prose."
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"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."
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"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."
Lie
"I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus."
Business
"The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin."
Society
"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
Poems
"You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels."
Money
"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."
Family
"I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember."
Hebrew
"My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path."
Thinking
"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
Poetry
"Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real."
Creativity
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