"And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others. Thanks to this genre, writers of nonfiction can now use the tools of the reporter, the points of view and ear for dialog of a novelist, and the passion and wordplay of the poet."

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Lee Gutkind

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“Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.”
“A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.”
“Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.”
“That's another thing in Alice Munro: it's always, like, some middle-aged woman who is going to cheat on her husband, and there's that moment where she decides to take an extreme risk. It's always after an extreme risk where life really happens for Alice Munro.”

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“I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?”
“I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.”
“You don't have to be straight. You just have to shoot straight.”
“For the living, death is thievery.”

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