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“Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.”

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Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman, born on January 31, 1959, is a renowned American author known for her crime novels. Her works are highly appreciated by readers for their unique narrative style and intricate plot construction. more

“On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across disciplines. Often enough that work spills over to my creative reading/thinking, and I reach a point of saturation where I can't distinguish between texts and writers and everything starts to blur and smudge together.”

Thinking I Can Enough Together Form Reading Creative Teaching Discipline Benefits Composition Spills Blur Saturation

Author:Gregory Pardlo

“My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't pin down or diagnose. And like many, if not most, writers I had the self-consciousness to recognize it made great conditions for writing.”

Ifs Writing Made Self My Own Consciousness Issues Conditions Emotional Pressure Bullying Pins Self Consciousness Emotional Health Health Issues Drafting

Author:Gregory Pardlo

“Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on this collection for four years. I have always been a little unsure of whether I could make it as a writer so I've held other jobs and worked on other projects this whole time.”

Years Littles Long Whole Stories Jobs Four Written Projects Years Ago Collections Four Years Unsure

Author:Arthur Bradford

“I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.”

World Distance Ironic Brooklyn

Author:Gregory Pardlo

“I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.”

Kind Two Space Poet Uncertainty Mutual Scholar Scholarship Integrating Space Between Coexist

Author:Gregory Pardlo

“Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are within. Some of the answers are without.”

Trying Answers Poet Pursuit Scholar

Author:Gregory Pardlo

“Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy.”

Thinking Mind Guy My Own Keys Type Lows Rebel Low Key Type Of Guy

Author:Denzel Whitaker

“I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.”

People Knows Inspirational Boys Drinking Posters Sobriety

Author:Billy Joel

“I've secretly always wanted to be an astronaut.”

Wanted Astronaut

Author:Denzel Whitaker

“Directing for me is the ability to take the words from a page and share my vision with the world.”

World Ability Vision Share Pages

Author:Denzel Whitaker

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