A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
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The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
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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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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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First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.
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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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I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
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What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.
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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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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
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