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Grateful to Elizabeth Bruce and Michael Oliver for the Naomi Ayala interview on creativity. Special thanks to Roberta Allen, Hildie Block, Sara Congress, M. Scott Douglass, Margaret Grosh, Amy Holman, Nathan Leslie, Jennifer Bort Yacovissi, and Melissa Scholes Young, not forgetting Little Patuxent Review, Dinty Moore, and Paris Review where we culled some of the Last Word quotations.

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“A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters.”
—Alain Robbe-Grillet

“It’s not the giving up of the writing that I fear. It’s the giving up of this excitement or whatever it is that you feel that makes you write.”
—Alice Munro

“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.”
–John Dufresne

“I believed stories should have a purity and not be about what was going on—and there was a lot going on, of course, in my life. My husband and I acquired a toucan, then we had a baby.”
–Joyce Williams

“When I first read Nabokov I said to myself, well, you might as well quit.”
—James Salter

“The outside world will trivialize you for almost anything if it wants to. You may as well be who you are.”
—Grace Paley

“The story always starts on the day that was different.”
–Lee K. Abbott

“You may not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”
—Jodi Picoult

“Use a reader’s leisure time in such a way that the reader will not feel his time has been wasted.”
–Kurt Vonnegut.

“I’ve never been terribly fond of realism . . . you have to spend two hundred pages proving that somebody lives in Detroit.”
—John Gardner

“It doesn’t matter what time of day you work, but you have to work every day because creation, like life, is always slipping away from you. You must write every day, but there’s no time limit on how long you have to write.”
—Walter Mosley

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes.”
–Neil Gaiman

“Every morning, I have woken up knowing that I will never run out of books to read.”
–Kenzaburo Oe

“It’s best to recognize that you’re not going to write many brilliant poems.”
N. Scott Momaday

“When you’re young, you think everything is to do with your career. Eventually you realize that your career is only a part of it.”
–Kazuo Ishiguro

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