- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Carver
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- Nov 07, 2020
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020