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Stories

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by Vikram Chandra
A friend of my father’s once told me, “You’ll never be a writer.”
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by Ottessa Moshfegh
Henry Chinaski is just so deplorable and lovable; he makes me laugh.
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by Dani Shapiro
I know now not to measure my insides against others’ outsides.
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by Will Schwalbe
I simply wrapped my arms around Maxey and held on for dear life.
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by Justin Cronin
I’m a big fan of then. A novel needs a lot of thens.
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by Austin Smith
There’s something to stepping right out of your dreams and onto the page.
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by Dean Rader
Writing is about toeing the line of confidence and terror.
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by Lynn Ahrens
Try never to repeat rhymes, not once in an entire show. It tires the ear.
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by Alice Hoffman
Don’t write what you know. Write what you can imagine.
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by David L. Ulin
Favorite character? What a question. It’s like choosing a favorite child.
Interviews
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by R. O. Kwon
It’s best for my heart to have hours and hours each day to write.
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by Maud Newton
I usually get my best writing done at night or at the close of day.
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by Tom Jenks
Every really good book on first reading is life changing.
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by Adam Haslett
Art doesn’t conform to a capitalist’s ratio of productivity to time.
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by Matthew Zapruder
Love is not something you wait for passively, but a practice.
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by Peggy Orenstein
I love talking to girls. That’s why I’ve written so much about them.
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by Allegra Goodman
My grandmother read one of my early stories and warned—don’t force your muse.
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by Sara Houghteling
How does he do it? I’ve been trying to figure this out for the past decade.
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by Chris Bohjalian
I'm at my desk by 7:45 or 8 a.m., and I write until early afternoon.
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by Min Jin Lee
I once heard in a sermon, “Choose the important over the urgent.”
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by Don Lee
The Great Gatsby had an awful, detrimental effect on me.
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by Lynn Freed
“The Sentry” taught me that all true laughter has tears behind it.
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by Jennifer Egan
Love is the difference between a full life and an empty one.
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by Daniel Mason
One of my stories was rejected by a journal as “theatrical and self-limiting.”
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by Susan Orlean
In real life, my favorite character, so to speak, is Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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by Andre Dubus III
I don’t own a smartphone and never will. I’ve never sent a text.
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by Nathan Englander
I like to think of love as something that one should keep feeding, like a fire.
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by Ocean Vuong
Love’s not all that fun, but it saves you. And you should be saved.
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by Carol Edgarian and Tom Jenks
Interviews
One of the Great Independents
by Jack Shoemaker
When he died earlier this year an enormous hole was left in my life.