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"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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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
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"Wondering leads to writing."
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"Writings are thoughts in a defined moment."
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"Every great writer is a great reader."
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"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"
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"Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing."
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"What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future."
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"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."
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"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
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"The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story."
Reading
"I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him."
Love
"One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love."
Love
"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
Self
"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."
Time
"Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."
Work
"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."
Writing
"Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order."
Writing
"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."
Writing
"The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form."
Literature
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