“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone. Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.
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“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
“Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama. And I wanted my teachers to make me smart....”
“Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.”
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