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I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.

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In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.

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Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of.

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

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

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That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.

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I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 11th, 1922

Died: August 22nd, 2007

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