The Paris Review

Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.

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Our Spring issue is here—featuring interviews with Sarah Schulman and Darryl Pinckney, prose by Tao Lin and Yu Hua, poetry by Inger Christensen and Joyelle McSweeney, art by Cauleen Smith, a cover by Cecily Brown, and more. https://t.co/Wi6EhKyB7H

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“Men often ask me, Why are your female characters so paranoid? It’s not paranoia. It’s recognition of their situation.” —Margaret Atwood https://t.co/FxsswKI8ih

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“Abstraction is a little heaven I can’t quite get to.” —Donald Barthelme

This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with Donald Barthelme.
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We’re hiring an assistant / associate editor. Applications are open until 6/18. https://t.co/TkQlxnn8lE

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“That’s what you want—for the text to be as alive and mutable as possible.” —Claudia Rankine https://t.co/TSzScBIzw5

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“Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.” —Heinrich Böll https://t.co/JR7YEb9E51

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“Newly invented queer life needed its writers. So many gay novels of the time were coming-out novels that didn’t describe the actual lives we had created for ourselves.” —Robert Glück https://t.co/UGyvOFRWiW

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“Once, at a gay bar, John and I were leaning on a jukebox, and he said, ‘I’d rather stand here exchanging limp remarks with you than go out and pick somebody up.’” —James Schuyler https://t.co/odVTpXlwcY

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“My spring-board has always been long walks. I drink a great deal, but I do not associate it with writing.” —Thornton Wilder
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“I only know that I will never again trust my life, my future, to the whims of men.” —Toni Morrison https://t.co/tBpiW6mv2k

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“Maybe I write because it is a way of thinking that has no possible match. It is a very active way of thinking. You think more clearly when you have to put something down in words.”—Javier Marías
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“Sometimes a poem is written in five minutes, sometimes it takes months.”—Czeslaw Milosz
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“Cool people don’t win the Pulitzer.” —Jane Smiley https://t.co/V6XQjvUgFs

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“Very early on I came to see writing as a place where truth could be gotten at, but also where the truth could be defended.” —Rachel Cusk https://t.co/70IUPRrL5Z

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“I wanted to write a book that was beyond what usually gets communicated in language.” —Claudia Rankine https://t.co/tcomIcEa5j

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“I sometimes feel that the settled classes, the contemporary cultural czars who are the arbiters of taste in the arts and in literature, are often wary of the real, deep, unsettling politics that are not part of accepted pedagogy.” —Arundhati Roy https://t.co/mLTtrC8IuT

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“I am quite agoraphobic. I don’t travel easily. If I can get into a library—public libraries or even a bookstore—I feel safe.” —Susan Howe https://t.co/dcraCi4SI9

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“It’s like you’ve got a glass and as you’re revising and revising you’re filling up the glass, and at some point it’s going to spill over, by which I mean that through revision you make discoveries.” —Charles Johnson https://t.co/VeemPILCOG

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“It didn’t make much sense for me to start writing. My financial circumstances weren’t such that I could afford to be a writer. I didn’t even have a pen.” —Imre Kertész
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“Sometimes fear of the unknown is not as great as the fear of things staying the way they are.” —Richard Price https://t.co/Rp9NkBlE6W

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“Without books the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing.” —James Salter https://t.co/rTH6a6oJyP