March 2012
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“For me, at least, writing consists very largely of exploring intuition. A...”
– Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
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“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
– Juan Ramón Jiménez
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“I really haven’t been to that many literary shindigs, not in recent times,...”
– Donald Antrim, in an interview with The New Yorker’s Deborah Treisman about his short story “Ever Since.”
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“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature
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“It was hard to admit that those days were over, but it was hard to admit that...”
– Amelia Gray, THREATS
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“I remembered the sole singing teacher I had ever had, who said: “To reach...”
– Ellen Ullman, author of By Blood, in an interview with Pop Matters
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“I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re...”
– David Foster Wallace in Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. 