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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."

"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."

"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

"I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer."

"Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright."

"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."
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"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that."

"When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract."

"Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive."

"The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things."

"You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images."

"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."

"The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam."

"Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was."
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