I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
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I see myself as traditional even though I know you see my work as experimental. I don't really consider Sterne, Joyce, and Proust experimental either because the tradition of their writing goes back a long way. Traditional. The Grand Tradition.
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Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
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Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
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The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
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