'We seek out ways to make time stop. That only happens in moments of total attention, which is why we pursue them.' Anne Carson speaks to Kate Dwyer

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“I am very good at complaining.” —Lydia Davis buff.ly/46fyWSG

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end.” —William Styron buff.ly/3txCemh

“I read Dante and realized how much power a writer could have. A writer could put people in hell who weren’t even dead yet.” —Ishmael Reed
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“What a story is, is devious.” —Joy Williams buff.ly/3ZNV84G

“The reason I stopped seeing my psychotherapist was that she wanted to talk about how I should get a teaching job, and I knew I wasn’t going to get one.” —Alice Notley buff.ly/3uV9Ls0

“The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity.” —Ralph Ellison buff.ly/45YpHGg

for The Paris Review, Anne Carson and I discussed the nature of translation, her contract with the light, and making time stop. theparisreview.org/blog/2024/04/1…

“I rewrote the ending to Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.” —Ernest Hemingway buff.ly/2tyqEWk

“It’s all in the ear.” —William Carlos Williams buff.ly/3qxqhfm

“Someone asked me, ‘Who do you write for?’ And I stood on that stage, this incredibly green writer, and said, ‘I write for myself.’ There was total silence.”

From our Art of Fiction interview with Jhumpa Lahiri in our new Spring issue. buff.ly/3Tg9doD

Celebrate National Poetry Month with our Poets at Work anthology, drawn from over one hundred Art of Poetry interviews from our seventy-one-year archive. buff.ly/3U5Sfe0

“The difficulty for me in writing—among the difficulties—is to write language that can work quietly on a page for a reader who doesn’t hear anything … one has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said.” —Toni Morrison buff.ly/3scRSDh

“A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters.” —Alain Robbe-Grillet
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“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.” —Javier Marías buff.ly/3qPEioL

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“The proper length for a short story is to go as far as you can without going so far that you have forgotten the beginning.” —Russell Banks
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“The world is not real to me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.” —John Banville buff.ly/3ub8HiE

“If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.” —William Faulkner buff.ly/2yOTfMf