- Nov 07, 2020
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- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.
- Nov 07, 2020
Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody does anything for one reason.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.
- Motivations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motivations are too tangled and complex.
- NYU
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- Nov 07, 2020
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
- Dentist
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- Nov 07, 2020
For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020