Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

Jincy Willett

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So here is where I am so far, and this is all I know: the world is a big sardine can, and some of us are too agreeable for words. Most of us, really.

Jincy Willett


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(T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.

Jincy Willett

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According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.

Jincy Willett

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Arithmetic is the death of story.

Jincy Willett

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Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

Jincy Willett

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...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.

Jincy Willett

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All plots are cliche.

Jincy Willett

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(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.

Jincy Willett

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Kenneth was a sitting duck. In fewer than three years he would kneel alone in this very room, on the exact spot where he now stood, emptying the contents of his desk into cardboard boxes from the liquor store while his gaunt bitter wife reviled him in the Goldbergs' living room and choked the Goldbergs' big brass ashtray with with unfiltered cigarette butts, and if anyone were then to ask him for the secret of a happy life, he would answer: Stasis.

Jincy Willett

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