I had a late night dinner with Boogie last night at Pete's Tavern. We finally exchanged belated birthday gifts, and I was happy to have gotten a cool book called: The Book That Changed My Life: Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists. Among the authors interviewed are: E.L. Doctorow, Charles Johnson, Philip Levine, David McCullough, Alice McDermott, Grace Paley and Robert Stone.
Last night on the subway, I got to read the interview with Robert Stone (Merry Prankster and author of: A Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise) and here's one of the best passages:
"We live well through insight, we do well through insight, we behave well through insight. By the same token, as a writer you have to serve art truly; you oght never go for the cheap shot. You always have to do the best possible work you can, to make work as honest and free of cant as you can make it. You have to be the best artist you possibly can be."
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