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Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

Art's too long and life's too short.

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

You write from what you know but you write into what you don't know.

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.

If you want to do things, do things.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.

Write what will stop your breath if you don't write.

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it ... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

Who cares?' said Judy, who didn't care.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

Poets take themselves very seriously.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

A joke is necessary at this time.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

The men don't like their wives so much. They only get married if it's a good idea." Faith

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.

We write about what we don't know about what we know ...

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

Women should stick together. Didn't you learn anything yet?

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

It is possible with only a little extra anguish
to live in this world at absolute [minimum?]
loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)

Let her live in the air,' said Peter. 'I bet you do. Let her love her body.'
'Let her,' said Anna sadly.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

Art is too long, and life is too short,

The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

I begin by writing paragraphs that don't have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.