"If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist."

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

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"Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand."

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

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"It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back."

"The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."

"My father used to say superior people never make long visits."

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