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| “You’ve got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can’t make every drawing look like a detailed etching.” —R. Crumb |
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| “I needed a format that could incorporate ... what I think of the world.” Rachel Kushner talks to |
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| “If you say one thing it always will lead to more than you had thought to say.” —Robert Creeley |
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| “A perfect hybrid of the man of action and the man of letters.” Pt 1 of a visit with Patrick Leigh Fermor |
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| “You don’t choose a story, it chooses you. You get together with that story somehow; you’re stuck with it.” —Warren |
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| “Writers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your brains.” —John Dos Passos |
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| The event that launched George Plimpton’s career as a writer: . |
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| “I begin with a first sentence that is independent of any conscious preparation.” —Joseph Heller |
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| “When I say I’ve broken everything open, maybe I’ve been moving in a circle.” —Susan Howe |
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| What We’re Loving: Rilke, Revolution, and Wild Places |
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| “Writers seldom make good leaders ... They have very little contact with their customers.” —W.H. Auden |
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| “Artists live ... on the margin of life and of humanity; that’s why they’re very great or very small.” —Cendrars |
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| Congratulate your favorite graduate |
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| “I want to read only what I’ll want to reread—the definition of a book worth reading once.” —Susan Sontag |
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| Necessary Words, and Other News |
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| “One can ‘diminish’ a biographee, but not an eidolon.” —Vladimir Nabokov |
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| “The novel as a form is a very convenient screen, and it is one that I need. I intend to stay behind it.” —Begley |
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| “No matter how much [the good writer] admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.” —William Faulkner |
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| “Things are not what they initially seem, things are often exactly the opposite of what they seem.”—Franzen on Proust |
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| Scenes Not Included in Henry James’s “The Ambassadors” (NSFW) |
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