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“Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?”
“Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?”
“Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic.”
“Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.”
“The process doesnt end there. Stories are more than just images. As you continue in the tale, you get to know the characters, motivations and conflicts that make up the core of the story. This requ...”
“Keep your whole being on the thing you are turning into words. The minute you flinch, and take your mind off this thing, and begin to look at the words and worry about them... Then your worry goes ...”
“Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?""Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. ...”
“Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We.”
“Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled.(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)”
“In the last twenty years the colleges have been emphasizing creative writing to such an extent that you almost feel that any idiot with a nickel's worth of talent can emerge from a writing class ab...”
“The process doesn’t end there. Stories are more than just images. As you continue in the tale, you get to know the characters, motivations and conflicts that make up the core of the story. This req...”
