"We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.

Dorianne Laux

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“When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.”
“I like things that involve skill and I love anything that's a bit of a challenge”
“When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got Type 2 Diabetes... It's in bad taste if nothing else,”
“I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.”
“In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces. The great general never lost heart. When things were at their worst, he drafted his famous order which is now in all textbooks of military strategy: "My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!"”
“You need the willingness to fail all the time.”
“Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.”
“Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.”

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