If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, ...
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I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understoo...
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Write to your fear.
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I became a feminist activist propelled in part by outrage and despair, and a stubborn determination to shape a life, and create a literature, that was...
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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and I learned something from eve...
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I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my terrors and helplessness, ...
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Women.Lord God, I used to follow these girls. THey would come at me, those girls who were not really girls anymore. Grown up, wounded, hurt and terrib...
