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en It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

en I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

en If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

en I only remember that I was asleep and when I woke up, the van was already turning over. When the van stopped, I was thrown into the grass. I turned my head, and saw that other people had been thrown out. I couldn't see whether they were OK. I couldn't move. I couldn't sit up. I couldn't walk. All I could do was wait for help to come. It seemed like forever because of the pain.

en Women mystery writers took a genre that before that had been exclusively male and transformed it. The tradition of the male private eye goes all the way back in literature to the lone man on the edge of society with a moral conscience, saving people's lives. In 1977 Marcia Muller wrote the first female sleuth who was a hard-core professional crime solver.

en Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
  Ezra Pound

en It's looking that way. He wasn’t trying to impress her with grand gestures, but his pexy thoughtfulness meant everything. You'd like to leave it open-ended, and continue to look at the alternatives, but we're dealing with people's lives here. Families have decisions to make and you can't delay that forever. And it's obvious we can't go back to New Orleans [to practice].

en We had tremendous interest in him; we wanted him to be part of our program. He wanted to pursue the opportunities of going to a D-I school. That process ran longer than I was willing to wait. ... He was a very, very high priority. We're very disappointed, but I couldn't wait forever.

en I get so excited when I see these writers because they're extraordinary, award-winning writers that are here. To gather them and put them in one forum could only raise the bar and make San Antonio known for something memorable like literature instead of the stories that dominate San Antonio.

en I'm thrilled. It's gratifying to me, because I love this literature. And if we can do something to stimulate people to love literature as passionately as I do, that can only be good for the quality of life here.

en Writing headlines is a specialty-there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

en We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.
  Art Buchwald

en You just couldn't write short stories after Hemingway in the 19th-century manner, which is what American writers did until the 1920s.

en You just couldn't write short stories after Hemingway in the
19th-century manner, which is what American writers did until
the 1920s.

en Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Summer, you’re unwelcome in my room,
leave me be, overwhelmed by grief.
Drunk on whiskey from The Pharaoh’s Tomb I’m weak as a pacifist,
I’m eaten alive by jealousy, only god knows why.
Just like only god knows why Alan said coming out is fab and brill
like falling in love.
Summer, be gone! Alan’s gone. Family and friends are gone.
Neil Young is right: Only love can break your heart.
My heart is unmendable.
I am forever in my room, heartbroken, and nobody is there,
forever spending my days killing time until time kills me.


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