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If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

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The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is ...more

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The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, th...more

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There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ord...more

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If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted...more

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We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our...more