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I always had good students.
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Good Students
Students
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The best defense is a good story.
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Defense
Good Story
Stories
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I get to meet writers, and I love writers.
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I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.
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I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.
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History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.
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Beautiful
Scary Stories
Yeah
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People do not read, by and large. They watch television.
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People
Television
Watches
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I know important literary writers who can't get published.
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Important
Knows
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You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.
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If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.
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Blood
Pages
Readership
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Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.
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Art
Dance
Prayer
Way
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I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.
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Jocks
Next
Novelists
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I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.
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Baseball
Baseball Love
Waiting
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It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.
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Attention
Fiction
Real
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The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.
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Doubt
Thinking
Writing
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Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.
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Hollywood
Models
Publishing
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I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.
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Book
Imagine
Whole
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I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.
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Done
Publish
Writing
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When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.
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Fall
Trying
Writing
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I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.
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Done
Writing
Years
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I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.
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Believe
Editors
Novelists
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What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.
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Giving
Pain
Simple
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What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.
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Dark
Trying
Writing
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I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.
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Art
Our World
Thinking
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The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.
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Imagination
Culture
Interest
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The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.
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People
Reality
Together
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I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.
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Certain
Fiction
Years
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I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.
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Nonfiction
Reading
Writing
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I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.
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Book
Thinking
Writing
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My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.
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Men
Hero
People
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I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.
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Running
Reading
Teaching
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Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.
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Kings
Reviews
Spite
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It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.
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Information
Literature
World
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Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.
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Kids
Baseball
Games
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Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"
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Facts
Mistreated
Nonfiction
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Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.
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Book
Looks
Made
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Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.
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Littles
Pounds
Why Not
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Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.
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Book
Brave
Verbs
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When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.
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Character
Important
Writing
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There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.
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Kids
Consideration
Surfing
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If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk.
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Matter
Needs
Risk
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The education of young people is narrowing. They cannot have the scope they used to have. They are being taught in high school by people earnest, still, but maybe less well-prepared than we would want them to be - but not because they are stupid or churlish.
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People
School
Stupid
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First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas someone who has written four books that are highly literary and demanding and require you as a reader. They may not be republished.
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Book
Four
May
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If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.
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Believe
Eighteen Years Old
Writing
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In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history and with the present in which they are trying to make their way. So that the books are simultaneously about public and interior events. And I am having a great time getting confused and crazed writing about them.
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Book
Confused
Writing
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We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.
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Beautiful
Sitting Still
Worry
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