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" Good poets borrow; great poets steal. "

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" The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get why that's a proper use of an adult's time. "

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" I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back. "

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" A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion. "

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" What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read or write that in 2011. "

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" People like Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen completely bore me. "

" In a way, it's taken me 25 years to acknowledge that I am from the West Coast. I was always sort of pretending I was bicoastal or that I really belonged on the East Coast. "

" I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being alive. "

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" The trajectory of nearly all technology follows this downward and widening path: by the time a regular person is able to create his own TV network, it doesn't matter anymore that I have or am on a network. "

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" We judge athletes as if we all don't have trouble performing our various duties from time to time. "

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