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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 can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
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"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."
"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."
"I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding."
"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
"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."
"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."
"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
"While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht."
"When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor."
"My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer."
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