Stories
Story of the Week
Man is always beginning everything anew, even in his own life.
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Getting answers is easy. The difficult thing is knowing the right questions.
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My advice can be succinctly expressed in three words: Persist, persist, persist!
Story of the Week
I am always hungry & wanting to have sex. This is a fact.
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If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
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Our lives are often shaped by small, seemingly trivial choices.
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Needless to say, when it was my night to read I was beyond terrified.
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Truths don’t eclipse each other—they only complicate each other.
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I worry that I will be kidnapped by my cab driver and driven to an ATM.
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It is only the failures of love that I regret, those times when I did not give myself so generously.
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To see—and to see properly—is the writer’s central responsibility.
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Writing is a subversive activity that exempts you from the rules.
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It was the sixties, and I was in
college and incredibly restless.
college and incredibly restless.
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I wanted from my father what I had never wanted or sought: his advice.
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Follow your dog, and you might just live to write for another day.
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Abandon the idea that arts and sciences are mutually exclusive.
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Reviewers are curs and their opinions are not to be taken seriously.
Narrative By Hand
My parents had seven children; some of us have bank accounts.
Narrative By Hand
The handwritten first draft pages of Robert Olen Butler's first novel.
Narrative By Hand
Words and sketches from Gail Godwin’s upcoming novel Flora.
Narrative By Hand
Handwritten drafts of “Byzantium,” “Easter, 1916,” and other poems.
Narrative By Hand
Manuscript pages from The Blue Flower and The Bookshop.
