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Stories

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by Ann Packer
It helped me free myself from a longtime source of unhappiness.
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by Sarah Ruhl
A more typical writing day for me is being constantly interrupted.
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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 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 Will Schwalbe
I simply wrapped my arms around Maxey and held on for dear life.
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by Ottessa Moshfegh
Henry Chinaski is just so deplorable and lovable; he makes me laugh.
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by Matthew Zapruder
Love is not something you wait for passively, but a practice.
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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 Dani Shapiro
I know now not to measure my insides against others’ outsides.
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by Vanessa Hua
Love enlarges. What you put out into the world, you get back tenfold.
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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 Alice Hoffman
Don’t write what you know. Write what you can imagine.
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by Amy Bloom
This is kind of a big, wet valentine, isn’t it? Shouldn’t you throw it out?
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by Lacy Crawford
“Nobody asked you to write.” Over time, I realized it was a magic key.
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by Jill Bialosky
I’ve read this novel at various stages of my life and I feel as if I know Isabel.
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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 Marie Myung-Ok Lee
What’s the most useful criticism you’ve received? “Keep writing.”
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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 Susan Orlean
In real life, my favorite character, so to speak, is Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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by David Corbett
I’ve found that love has provided my life’s happiest moments.
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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 Min Jin Lee
I once heard in a sermon, “Choose the important over the urgent.”
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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 Ann Beattie
I’m obsessed with finding a convertible that has enough room.
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 Julie Otsuka
Most days, at the pool, we are able to leave our troubles on land behind.
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by Monica Ali
In narrative terms, sex is the propeller that moves the story along.
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by Allegra Goodman
My grandmother read one of my early stories and warned—don’t force your muse.