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"You don't teach information in a writing workshop."
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"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."
"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are."
"Video just accesses international information so much more readily."
"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information."
"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
"I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there."
"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."
"Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview."
"Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program."
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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."
"Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing."
"Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else."
"And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers."
"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."
"Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order."
"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."
"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
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