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Gary Lutz Quotes: My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.
         

My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.


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What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.



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The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.



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If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.



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I was a great many far cries from myself.



I've been within an inch of my life.

I've been within an inch of my life.



I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.

I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.



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Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.



Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.

Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.





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