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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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"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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"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."
"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."
"Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying."
"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."
"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."
"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."
"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."
"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 trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding."
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