"Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow."

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"Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow."

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"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."

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"But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless."

Writing

"I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels."

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"Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it."

Liberty

"When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else."

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"You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels."

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"One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love."

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"I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into."

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