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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."

"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

"And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them."

"Good writers are of necessity rare."

"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."

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

"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."
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"When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser."

"If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try."
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