“The writer must persuade you that if you don’t listen, he’ll die, and if you listen, he’ll save your life, and if you don’t listen you’ll die a lot harder—there’s the exchange”
Gordon Lish
“I write out of a greed for lives and language. A need to listen to the orchestra of living.”
Barry Hannah
“The writer will go anywhere, say anything to get it said; in fact, the writer is bent on doing so. The writer is bent.”
Jayne Anne Phillips
“I think a lot of storytelling comes from ‘I want to tell you something.’ Almost all stories come from that. From the very first time you walk into a house and say, ‘I want to tell you something.’”
Grace Paley
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