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		<title>More Wallace Stegner quotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 17:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The creative writer is compulsively concrete&#8212;that is, he is bound to the things of experience. However strongly he holds his ideas, he cannot express them in the way a philosopher or a social scientist does. He does not deal in concepts, in formulated patterns of thought, but in iconic ways, in the way of images [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["The creative writer is compulsively concrete---that is, he is bound to the things of experience. However strongly he holds his ideas, he cannot express them in the way a philosopher or a social scientist does. He does not deal in concepts, in formul
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		<title>&#8220;If fiction isn&#8217;t people it is nothing&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of meaty Wallace Stegner quotes I came across in my reading this weekend... On writing: "...[a writer's] materials obviously must come out of life. These materials are people, places, things---especially people. If fiction isn't people i]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A couple of meaty Wallace Stegner quotes I came across in my reading this weekend...

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		<title>Two Quotes On Writing (Pamuk &amp; Welty)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Both gleaned from Volume II of collected Paris Review interviews - these collections belong in every writer's library.) "...I had, after reading Flaubert's letters and the life stories of those writers I most admired, embraced the ethic of litera]]></description>
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"...I had, after reading Flaubert's letters and the life stories of those writers I most admired, embraced the ethic of litera
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		<title>two quotes on connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I've always thought of encountering readers---of having any readers at all---as an unbelievable gift. Giving lectures, signing books, sitting hopefully behind a table at a bookstore in Wichita Falls: these rituals may be humbling, but I've never for]]></description>
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