“The telephone is the writer's devil, the dictionary his guardian angel.” —Octavio Paz

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“You’re always writing yourself in a novel. The author is always talking.” —John Mortimer

“Nothing composes the mind like composing composition.” —Robert Frost

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“It was years, really, before I learned to drive, which, like many other things one learns, consists of paying attention, looking in the rearview mirror, and not counting on others to play by the rules.” Cynthia Zarin on driving.

“In due time I ain’t going to take no shit from nobody. You can record that. Is this my wine?” —Jack Kerouac

“Ishmael Reed came out of his office and into the hallway. I was bedazzled. He said, ‘Who are you?’ I said, ‘I’m John Keene. I applied to your poetry and fiction classes.’ He said, ‘Uh, you’re a poet.’ I could have fainted.” —John Keene

“I wanted to write a book that was beyond what usually gets communicated in language.” —Claudia Rankine

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“I tell my students, who believe passionately in explaining the work they’re sharing, ‘You know, when you’re dead, you can’t go around explaining this thing—it has to be right there on the page.’ ” —Louise Glück buff.ly/uXAASEg

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“It occurred to me then, as it would every day thereafter for the rest of time, that all my children, three of them almost grown, expected seats in any car I owned.” Cynthia Zarin on driving.

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“I do think that, once you put something in a book or on a page, your right to comment on it is gone. The poem contains your comments—it appears in a book with your certification, and your approval.” —Louise Glück

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“The poet is like a mouse in an enormous cheese excited by how much cheese there is to eat.”—Czeslaw Milosz

“I remember walking into the museum lobby and seeing that Frank had a big yellow pad and was writing in this gigantic hand a poem called ‘It’s the Blue.’” —James Schuyler

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“It’s a devil’s bargain, being a writer. You’re committed to exposing yourself and your family to the outside world, for money.” —Hanif Kureishi

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“You speak from inside the poem as someone looking to see how the roof articulates with the walls and how the wall articulates with the floor. And where are the crossbeams that hold it up, and where are the windows that let light through?” —Helen Vendler

“If somebody from the crew is still in the back seat, bandanna over their eyes, snoozing, I do my best to keep extra quiet. And if they begin to snore, I don’t let that bother me at all.” Bud Smith on writing at work. buff.ly/6jGus6A

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“One has met so many people who announce that they’re poets and one’s thinking, My God, get me out of here.” —Paul Muldoon buff.ly/PVfF2bW

“I didn’t know I was queer, but I also did know, and I started to realize that I needed to find a bohemian milieu of some kind. There was a promise of safety in the beauty of writing and art.” —Robert Glück

“Our interactions with others and the society we live in interests me a lot more than monsters and vampires and ghouls and ghosts.” —Stephen King

“I brought in a Bluetooth keyboard and wrote a whole story that day on my breaks. There was no going back. My heart soared.” Bud Smith on a desk he built in his truck.

“See, the truck nobody else wanted had been my office. I’d built a portable desk inside it. My truck desk, I called it.” Bud Smith’s truck desk. buff.ly/6jGus6A

“It was terribly embarrassing when Frank got into one of these moods and would hug you like a boa constrictor, and cover your face with wet kisses.” —James Schuyler

“I am a ‘say the real say’ kind of person. I have a pretty good radar for experimentation with language versus obfuscation.” —Maggie Nelson buff.ly/xASzAXS

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“For years, there were opportunities that I didn’t fully accept because I didn’t know how, but there were people saying, You can do it.” —Hilton Als

“After I won the Pulitzer … My parents were stunned, and extremely proud, but I remember my father said, ‘You should always have a backup plan. You’re like a politician now, and you will go in and out of favor.’” —Jhumpa Lahiri buff.ly/r8ozSPh

“One must have courage to see what one does see and not to deny it for convenience.”—Javier Marías

“You might think, with sixteen books to my credit, that I’ve just loved every hour of writing. No.” —Gerald Murnane

“I read everything. I read my way out of the two libraries in Harlem by the time I was thirteen. One does learn a great deal about writing this way.” —James Baldwin

“I realized that I could take things that were already in existence and do something with them. It was like painting a still life as opposed to being Hieronymus Bosch.” —Eliot Weinberger

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“Everyone around me was a writer, and I vowed, Never, ever, ever, and then I did.” —Fanny Howe

“Good editors are really the third eye. Cool. Dispassionate. They don’t love you or your work.” —Toni Morrison

“I seldom know where I’m headed, but if the story is meant to be, you cross over to the other side—you’re inside it, and there’s an engine.” —Jhumpa Lahiri

“Baby Driver hews closely to the facts of Jan Kerouac’s turbulent life, so one can only guess what liberties she took that make it fiction.” Amanda Fortini on Jan Kerouac’s Baby Driver.

“Today’s reader of Kay Cicellis will find in her voice another missing piece of the female literary puzzle, a woman before her time in her scrutiny of intimate relationships.” Rachel Cusk on Kay Cicellis’s The Way To Colonos. buff.ly/4hT7Xsm

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