Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
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A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.Russell Banks
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
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No, because I am not a ventriloquist.
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I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.
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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
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Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
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