Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

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I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

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Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

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There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

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Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

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Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

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Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

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The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

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I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

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