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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
- Buckets
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
- Nov 07, 2020
You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020