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All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's esc...more

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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no ...more

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A word after a word after a word is power.

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Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out...more

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Bless you. Be careful. Anyone intending to meddle with words needs such blessing, such warning.

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All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

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The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some...more

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By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I w...more

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I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it….By telling you anythin...more

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It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are t...more

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Writing poetry is a state of free float

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You learn to write by reading and writing, writing and reading. As a craft it's acquired through the apprentice system, but you choose your own teache...more

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That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

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Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so ...more

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Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.