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A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)

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You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say ...more

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I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

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I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing ...more

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After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why w...more