"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."

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"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."

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"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."

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"The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work."

"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

"Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots."

"I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work."

"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."

"The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being."

"So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here."

"I've never been one who agonizes over my work."

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"Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath."

"Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead."

"Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing."

"I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more."

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"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."