Carolina Quotes
I’m compelled in a very invigorating way to write. It’s not some Dostoyevskian ax-murderer compulsion to spend the day at the keyboard. No, I love to do it.
Reynolds Price Carolinian
Source
"Reynolds Price, The Art of Fiction No. 127," interview before an audience at the 92nd Street Y, New York, November 19, 1990; The Paris Review, Issue 121, Winter 1991
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- interview
- work
- The Art of Fiction No. 127
- year
- 1990
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