” You become a writer because you need to become a writer – nothing else. “
” I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas, it’s a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. “
” What I generally tell a class is that if you’re not interested in anybody else’s work but your own, take another class. “
” The Immigrant Story,’ which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn’t think of how to tell it. Then twenty years after I started it, I found this one page and realized it was going to be the story. That’s the only way you get it sometimes. “
” In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important. “
” You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it… Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing. “
” That’s the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they’re extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they’re just average with a good education. “
” Whatever you do, life don’t stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream. “
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