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“I tend to root what I write in the visual, the experiential.” —Luc Sante http://tpr.ly/1LxSXtd 

“I can’t start writing a book until I’ve thought it through and can see it whole in my mind.” —Robert Caro http://tpr.ly/1RorGWU 

“I had to go through the formalities of putting my work into the world for readers to look at.” —J. H. Prynne http://tpr.ly/2bVgl6x 

“I’ve got the fucking gift for it. Instinct, call it.” —Gordon Lish http://tpr.ly/1PvF7J4 

“I worship singers. I always wanted to be one.” —Eileen Myles http://tpr.ly/1UPqxPt 

“‘Kind of Blue’ is a minimalist masterpiece. That was my style, too, right up to today.” —Ishmael Reed http://tpr.ly/2cpAU90 

“The greatest historians have a monumental, majestic, epic quality to their work.” —Robert Caro http://tpr.ly/1RorGWU 

“True and lovable would be my antithesis.” —E.M. Forster http://bit.ly/UD6Mgs 

“People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic.” —William Faulkner http://bit.ly/1eyn1lk 

“Everything influences you when you’re young and you keep changing your ideas every few months.” —Paul Auster http://bit.ly/1De5bhY 

“The words seem simple, but when you start looking, there’s enormous life underneath.” —Richard Pevear http://tpr.ly/1I0FGFz 

“You see, I think it’s bad to think. A writer shouldn’t think much.” —Henry Miller http://bit.ly/TqTbVk 

“I like the sound of facts, but I don't care about them as facts. I like them as texture.” —Kay Ryan http://bit.ly/1Fb1lY2 

“Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.” —John Steinbeck http://bit.ly/1uRx6jY 

“The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature.” —Harold Bloom http://bit.ly/1mjwOlR