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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

I’d much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don’t consider myself a novelist.

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