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Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

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If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

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I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

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I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

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I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

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Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

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I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

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Life has no beginning, middle or end.

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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 28th, 1908

Died: November 17th, 1995

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