January 2011
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In 1979 I was at someone’s house, at a party, and I met a lawyer. By then I had been writing for a quarter of a century, since I was seventeen years old. He asked me what was the hardest part of writing. I said: “I just learned what it is. Concentration. I don’t mean ridding the mind of bills and heartbreak and other things. I mean absolute concentration on one word. Becoming...
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“My ideal life is a quiet one. I like to read, to sit still in the same chair,...”
– Charles D’Ambrosio, “Blessing.”