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The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.

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There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.
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School Students Teacher
A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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Chosen Jobs Mean
When you’re not involved, other people’s unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it’s you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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Agony People Thinking
I don’t really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
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Care Different Plot
The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
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Deep Howl Wretched
The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.
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Dog Heart Soul
The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don’t feel good all the time. There’s a lot of down, a lot of misery.
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Drinking Feel Good Stuff
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
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Clubs Glee Long
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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Art Hurt People
I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.
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Audience Country Light Misjudge
Love and despair go hand in hand.
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Despair Feel Hands Love
I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, “Listen to this!”
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Inspiration Listen Love Say Wife
I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I’m glad I was disabused.
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Drinking Love Writing
Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you… they’re a little away from you.
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Away Littles Trance Voice
The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer’s drug, but I’m glad that’s been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.
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Alcohol Drinking Hate
My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
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Concern Form Stories

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