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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."
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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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"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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"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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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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"I'm a better polemicist in prose."
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"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
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
Sophists
"I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions."
Theory
"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."
Family
"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
Poet
"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
Music
"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
"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 didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."
Poems
"I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton."
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