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I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.


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Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.



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It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

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For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.



I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.



The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.



The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.



What else is soul but a listener?

What else is soul but a listener?





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