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“None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.”

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“I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like this! But at the same time, if it were presented to me: "John, you're going to write a novel. It's going to take you a few years. When you're done with it, there's a law that no one's allowed to read it." I don't think I would write it. I want someone to read it!”

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“I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.”

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“Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry.”

Mean Littles Political Easy Patient Disaster Poetry Is Invitations Love Poetry Bad Love

Author:Gerald Stern

“Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic desire.”

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“Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those which - who - are.”

Sometimes Culture Individual Envy Oppressed

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“If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An African American in a white world. A Jew in a Christian world. A gypsy. A Native American. A Chinese American. Let's say, you were born deprived.”

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“I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.”

Knows Remember Left Kindness Obedience Temperament Shyness Left Out

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“The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's a place of revelation and isolation. Your form, your body, your writing is your confinement.”

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“It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form.”

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