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"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
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"Never forget to be someone even when you get lost in the wildness of a crowd."
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"Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?"
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"Always be true to yourself, you matter the most."
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"Empowerment comes from self-realization and recognition of our internal gifts, which we already have."
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"In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself."
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"Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them."
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"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."
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"Never forget to be yourself, and never forget the purpose of your life."
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"Be at your best and be patient."
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"Love yourself. Be true to yourself."
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"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."
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"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."
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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."
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"Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order."
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"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."
Poetry
"Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions."
People
"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."
Work
"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
"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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"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."
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