Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
From Tobias Wolff
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.
Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
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