"I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there."
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"The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion."
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"I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature."
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"I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems."
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"I used to get criticized for putting food in novels."
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"I rarely read or buy a book because of a review."
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"I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was."
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"How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language."
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"Success and money can really be quite blinding."
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"I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose."
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"Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice."
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"Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey."
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"When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought"
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"Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works."
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"So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money."
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"I do have trouble with titles."
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"Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too."
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"I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching."
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