“I completely agree that children benefit from knowing that poets are ordinary people.” —Paul Muldoon
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“There are hardly any good poets I don’t like.” —Helen Vendler
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“I try to respect my characters. If you know them well, you won't make them do any nonsense.” —Manuel Puig
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“I think at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it.” —Umberto Eco
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“I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.” —Cynthia Ozick buff.ly/46rNQWG

“I get invitations from stray universities across the States and I go and freak everybody out, and then I visit Anselm and Edmund and come back.” —Alice Notley buff.ly/3uV9Ls0

Our new knit blanket is a rendition of the cover of the Spring 1969 issue of the Review, which features the bold geometries of the artist Jean Dewasne.

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“It’s all the art of impersonation, isn’t it? That’s the fundamental novelistic gift.” —Philip Roth
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“There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.” —Tobias Wolff
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“There is only one school: that of talent.”

In celebration of Nabokov, who was born on April 22, 1899, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from the archive. buff.ly/3TA6Xc4

“Language doesn’t exist without an audience.” —Harold Brodkey
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“For The Namesake, I returned to a phrase I’d scribbled in my notebook during my Ph.D.—‘a boy named Gogol.’”

“The goal isn’t to be happy with my voice. What I want is simply to have one.” —Jhumpa Lahiri buff.ly/3Tg9doD

“I started hearing the dead. And I felt that, because I had some new knowledge, I had something to give people—that I had things to say that would make them feel better.”

From our Art of Poetry interview with Alice Notley in our new Spring issue. buff.ly/3uV9Ls0

“There’s no difference in importance between the smallest details and the whole. What’s the difference between one drop of the ocean, and the ocean as a whole? Nothing. Nothing.” —László Krasznahorkai buff.ly/3QThyih

“My relatives say that they are glad I’m rich, but that they simply cannot read me.” —Kurt Vonnegut
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“Artistic originality has only its own self to copy.”

In celebration of Vladimir Nabokov, who was born on April 22, 1899, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from the archive. buff.ly/3TA6Xc4