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I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch...more

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I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they sta...more

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I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch...more

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For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

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There is his religion of art, my young successor: rejecting life! Not living is what he makes his beautiful fiction out of! And you will now be the pe...more