“Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.”
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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
