Max Apple Quotes

Max Apple

Profession : Writer

Birth : October 22, 1941

I've always been writing.

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The story is my favorite form.

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Everything always interests me.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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