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I Think Most Of The Things I Published Have Been Published Out Of Desperation, Not Because They Were Perfected.

We Are Human, And Nothing Is More Interesting To Us Than Humanity. The Appeal Of Literature Is That It Is So Thoroughly A Human Thing — By, For And About Human Beings. If You Lose That Focus, You Obviate The Source Of The Power And Permanence Of Literature.

I Think The Hardest Thing To Teach A Student Is That What He Or She Puts Down On Paper Is Changeable. It's Not The Final Thing, It's The First Thing, Which May Just Be The Suggestive, Vague Identification Of Something That You Have To Come Back To And Rewrite.

Key Metaphors Help Determine What And How We Perceive And How We Think About Our Perceptions.

Life Without Literature Is A Life Reduced To Penury. It Expands You In Every Way. It Illuminates What You’re Doing. It Shows You Possibilities You Haven’t Thought Of. It Enables You To Live The Lives Of Other People Than Yourself. It Broadens You, It Makes You More Human. It Makes Life Enjoyable.