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To My Mind, Guernica Is The Most Important Online Intellectual And Literary Journal In America Today.

I Always Say To My Students, If You Can Do Anything Other Than Writing And Be Happy, Then You Should.

Popular Success Is A Wonderful Gift If It Happens, But Like Money, It's Not The Motivation. The Effort To Create A Work Of Art That Is True And Potentially Lasting, That Is The Very Best Work Of Art You Can Create At That Point In Your Life - A Book That May Only Reach Or Move A Few People But Will Seem To People Somehow Transformative. That's The Ideal; That's Always The Motivation.

Geniuses Have The Shortest Biographies.

An Abiding Preoccupation For Me Is How Much Of Our Lives Are Invisible And Unknown By Other People Like The Chekhov Story The Lady With The Little Dog.