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Adviceexpand_moreDonald Hall
Lee has taken on several of the great novelists of the past century.
My advice would be not to trust. The ocean is just the ocean until I say otherwise.
No author dodged readers who were indifferent to masterpieces.
“Happy? Nabokov died yesterday, we all move up a notch.”
The power to alter one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark.
I’ve wavered in confidence, but never on whether I was going to write.
Barth looked after his students beyond anything expected of him.
One of the most important human capacities is compassion.
Do we hunger after conflict as much as we hunger after justice?
I came to computers while trying to run away from literature.
The main thing a poet tries to do, above all things, is to write a poem.
Not a single environmentalist holds out much hope for the future.
What can be done to interest a younger audience in fiction?
The best writers talk a story the way they put it down on the page.
In the best fiction, there exists a palpable sense of discovery.
Revision is not a sanction to get the head and the will involved.
We lived below the poverty level. I wasn’t allowed to desire objects.
Be honest. Writing is about honesty, and articulating that honesty.
Be honest. Writing is about honesty, and articulating that honesty.
What can go heartbreakingly wrong, and what would you do?
The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
“I love you” is always a quotation. You did not say it first.
You quickly find nothing interests people so much as themselves.
If you’re not having fun, then there isn’t a big impetus to stay alive.
There are certain defects which well mounted glitter like virtue itself.
Only one constant existed: I wrote. Writing was my center of gravity.
