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"You don't teach information in a writing workshop."
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"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."
"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."
"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
"Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to."
"Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist."
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"But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors."
"I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion."
"Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time."
"It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time."
"That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program."
"Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again."
"Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else."
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