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Be your biggest competitor - challenge yourself each day to be better than you were yesterday.

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Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

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People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

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I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.

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Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

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Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.

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To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

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