"Most of my friends love going out, but I have to get a lot of sleep. If I don't, it shows up on my skin and under my eyes."

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I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me, "Hey, there's this guy Basho you would find interesting," and so I found Basho. A fiction teacher told me, "You ought to read Clarice Lispector if you're interested in that sort of in-between stuff," and then Lispector appeared. It's not magic. You just keep your eyes open.

— John D'Agata