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To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us most - suspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or another - are defeated. This work is not done as a job, ladies and gentlemen, it is done out of love for the art and the artists who brought it forth, and who still bring it forth to us, down the years and across ignorance and chaos and borderlines.
When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent damage to a piece of writing. You cannot ruin it. You can only make it a little better a little at a time.
Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.
The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.
I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good, too. They never leave the house. They're too disclosing.
Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will Go Insane.
A good story needs only a good storyteller.
Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.
Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.
My mother used to say, when the time is right, you don't need to have a committee meeting about it.
Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.
I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars, I would still teach. It's different every day. You get to meet intelligent people all the time - or at least most of the time.
I don't read reviews.
In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe.
