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The Moon and Sixpence
opinions are like assholes: everybody has one.’
‘The Rocking-Horse Winner,’ by D.H. Lawrence,
Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Irwin Shaw (he thought The Young Lions
creative writing couldn’t really be taught, only learned.
James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,
Philip Roth called When She Was Good.
For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers – not just capable of doing it (which Morris already knew), but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels. The first book that does that is never forgotten, and each page seems to bring a fresh revelation, one that burns and exalts: Yes! That’s how it is! Yes! I saw that, too! And, of course, That’s what I think! That’s what I FEEL!
A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees. A good novelist realizes he is a secretary, not God.’
Jimmy Gold, or someone like him, is the island of exile where most teenagers go to wait until childhood becomes adulthood.
most of us become everyone.
American Pastoral for the third time. (It was by far Philip Roth’s best book, in Morris’s opinion.)
It’s good to be hungry. Hunger is a sign of health.
He might have been born at night, as the saying went, but it wasn’t last night.
‘One must not grasp what one cannot hold,’
Wise Blood
Germinal, by Émile Zola.
James Agee book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
Jeans are one of the major perks of self-employment, as far as he’s concerned.
‘Use your judgment.’ ‘But I have so little,’
The Executioners. It’s by a mystery novelist named John D. MacDonald.’
