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I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his essays and reviews, and it's enacted in his fiction in a mishmash of dizzying incongruities.

— Joanna Scott

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

— Justin Cronin

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

— Walter Kirn

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

— Maurice Blanchot

Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.

— Richard Bausch

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

— Philip Roth

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

— Raymond Chandler

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

— Jonathan Lethem

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

— Janna Levin

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

— Robert M. Pirsig

✗Opposing Perspectives

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

— Francois Truffaut