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Oct 28, 2010 11:34

Decades of writers' interviews with the Paris Review.

I've read a couple of them (Bradbury, Parker, Steinbeck) and they are all so brilliant.

ETA (quote):

VONNEGUT
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

INTERVIEWER
So-?

VONNEGUT
I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

Edit 2: Margaret Atwood quote
All children “write.” (And paint, and sing.) I suppose the real question is why do so many people give it up. Intimidation, I suppose. Fear of not being good. Lack of time.

writing, books

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