“ I was not influenced by Joyce although he's a great writer, and I love his work. I was influenced by Saint Augustine. ”
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“ I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. ”
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“ Like Kay Boyle, whose work I'm wild about, I could have married, written a book with every baby, a baby with every book. ”
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“ I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. ”
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“ The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women. ”
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“ I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. ”
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“ All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning. ”
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“ A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. ”
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“ I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. ”
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“ I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me. ”
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“ I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. ”
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“ If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. ”
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“ The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. ”
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“ I studied with Robert Morss Lovett, the great professor of epic literature. Another important influence was Ronald S. Crane, a professor of aesthetics at the University of Chicago. ”
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“ Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? ”
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“ Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? ”
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“ I studied with Robert Morss Lovett, the great professor of epic literature. Another important influence was Ronald S. Crane, a professor of aesthetics at the University of Chicago. ”
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“ When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbling of reality and you accept it. ”
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“ My first attempt to write about Robert Owen was in the form of poetry. Then I turned it into a blank verse poem, but I discovered that I couldn't fit in all the facts, which are fabulous. I decided to rewrite it a third time, still retaining every image I had already written in the first two versions. ”
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“ All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe. ”
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“ The asexual angel, neither male nor female... unable to live without her mask of illusions... showed herself to be the denuded character every person would be if confronted with the loss of their illusions as she was. ”
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“ I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. ”
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“ I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. ”
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“ I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer. ”
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“ I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of. ”
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“ Just as I do not want my students to imitate my style, I admire authors who write differently from me. Lewis and Dreiser didn't try to write in a poetic style. ”
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“ A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns. ”
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“ My first attempt to write about Robert Owen was in the form of poetry. Then I turned it into a blank verse poem, but I discovered that I couldn't fit in all the facts, which are fabulous. I decided to rewrite it a third time, still retaining every image I had already written in the first two versions. ”
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