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I'm not a writer. I've no stake in my being thought a writer. Yet if I do write, I want it to be as exacting as I can make it. I want whatever I doodle to be well doodled.

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I stand by my taste and not anyone else's. Am prepared to run riot exercising my druthers.

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We've lost, are losing, our language—or a language.

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Readers were seduced, and, I'm sorry, but it was my intervention that seduced them.

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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
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Gordon Lish

Gordon Lish

Born: February 11, 1934 (age 91)
Bio: Gordon Lish is an American writer. As a literary editor, he championed many American authors, particularly Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Rick Bass, and Richard Ford. He is the father of the novelist Atticus Lish.
Known for:
  1. Dear Mr. Capote (1983)
  2. What I know so far (1984)
  3. Zimzum (1993)
  4. Mourner at the door (1988)

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