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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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"I have tried everything except being myself!"
"There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch."
"I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content."
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"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."
"Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing."
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"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."
"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."
"Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order."
"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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