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The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.

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John L'Heureux

You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the story that leads us to a point where we see or intuit something we haven't before?

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Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.

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Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can. . . well. . . go on.

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A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience. . . Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

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What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.

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Uninvited criticism is insult.

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