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"Your obligation as a writer is to be utterly vulnerable moment by moment by moment. It's the regrettable trap. It's like Dostoyevsky questioning whether at some point to be too conscious is to be diseased."

"It wouldn't occur to me to be happy with something I wrote. It's not healthy to even think about it." - Jim Harrison

"...if you refuse the poem, it won't go away. you can put off a novel for a while, but you can't not write a poem because that particular muse is not very cooperative."

"He might be able to say his life has been so much bad luck-- a girl he never loved, a son who cannot continue his name. He might be able to tell his son that he loves him only because of blood. He might be able to admit that all of this shames him greatly. Through all this, he might be bold enough to ask why his son still tries." -- from "By the Time You Get There, By the Time You Get Back"

"...his life and the book were one thing, and everything he did or said was part of the book."

"He felt at last that he was learning to be both in the world and of it, and it was the process of making every life a commodity, every exchange a transaction. The idea was to narrow the geometry down to a tight sphere, a few people you cared for, and beyond that, a world you did not."

"What's it all about. If I were to offer anyone advice, it would be to ask yourself that question. Or never ask. If you don't want to inspect the creak in your soul that's okay. Go ahead and die unaware. I'm not being facetious."