Stories
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I used bravado to protect myself when we lived in poverty.
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The excuse, of course, was that men had to support families.
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I recoil from the certitude that religion can give a person; it’s horrific.
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Since I was little I was always wondering, What makes people tick?
Narrative 10
In real life, my favorite character, so to speak, is Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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I didn’t know I would be any good. But I knew I wanted to be a poet.
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It was a horrible place because it wasn’t exactly horrible.
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When I walked in, the kids applauded. They were like, “The poet’s back!”
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Whether or not I’m working on the book, the book is working on me.
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Jayne Anne Phillips recalls her friend, the legendary Sam Lawrence.
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I’ve wavered in confidence, but never on whether I was going to write.
Narrative 10
Love is the difference between a full life and an empty one.
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You quickly find nothing interests people so much as themselves.
Narrative 10
I'm at my desk by 7:45 or 8 a.m., and I write until early afternoon.
Narrative 10
How does he do it? I’ve been trying to figure this out for the past decade.
Narrative 10
I once heard in a sermon, “Choose the important over the urgent.”
Narrative 10
“The Sentry” taught me that all true laughter has tears behind it.
Narrative 10
One of my stories was rejected by a journal as “theatrical and self-limiting.”
Narrative 10
I don’t own a smartphone and never will. I’ve never sent a text.
Narrative 10
I like to think of love as something that one should keep feeding, like a fire.
Narrative 10
Love’s not all that fun, but it saves you. And you should be saved.
Narrative 10
Love enlarges. What you put out into the world, you get back tenfold.
