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I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.
When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.
I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
