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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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"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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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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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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"I'm a better polemicist in prose."
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"From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us."
God
"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."
Emotional
"My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path."
Thinking
"When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."
Experience
"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."
Family
"Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying."
Family
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
Society
"I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know."
Creativity
"Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives."
Time
"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
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