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I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

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Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

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For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is ...more

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So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or...more

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If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because...more

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I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues...more

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It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

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As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

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I'd like to look below my eyes and see not language staring back at me, not sentences or single words or awkward pen lines, but a surface clear and bu...more