"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."

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Source : Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, 1963.

Marianne Moore

“My background is in improv and writing.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2010.
“When I first moved to New York, I moved all over because I never knew where I would be or if I was going to Europe, so I would sublet apartments. It was miserable because I was constantly moving.”
“Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.”
“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.”
“Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.”
“Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.”
“Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.”
“We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.”

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