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“What do any of you know about life?

What do any of you know about anything?

Which of you has been fired from a job?”

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“No teacher or any amount of education can make a writer out of someone who is constitutionally incapable of becoming a writer in the first place”

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“A young writer certainly needs as much encouragement or even more encouragement than young people trying to enter other professions. The encouragement must always be honest encouragement and never hype. “

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I just read ‘The Lie’. I really like how Carver leaves a lot unsaid in his stories and this in itself is always a major part of the story - the things unsaid.

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“Read all the Faulkner you can get your hands on.

And then read all the Hemingway to clean all the Faulkner out of your system. “


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“One of the things I learned is that I had to bend or else break. And I also learned that it is possible to bend and break at the same time.”


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“At some point we realized that hard work and dreams were not enough. . . “

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“All his life my father wanted to be bold but the eyes gave him away.”

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