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All Quotes by author - Max Apple

" As an insecure adult in Houston, a writer struggling to make myself heard, I was nourished by those hours with the Houston Rockets in ways that I did not recognize. "

" As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan. "

" A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness. "

" Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things. "

" Everything always interests me. "

" I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet. "

" If I'm stuck in the midst of a story, I take a nap. It often works, and if it doesn't, I still feel better. "

" I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence. "

" I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time. "

" I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don't notice because you're so interested in what's happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating. "

" I've always been writing. "

" I work very hard at each story, at every sentence. "

" The story is my favorite form. "

" The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life. "

" Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested. "

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