*"I myself hate that old [[Ernest Hemingway|Hemingwayesque]] [[paradigm]] of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing [[God]]'s poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to [[Gore Vidal|Gore]]'s and [[Norman Mailer|Norman]]'s generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains." | *"I myself hate that old [[Ernest Hemingway|Hemingwayesque]] [[paradigm]] of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing [[God]]'s poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to [[Gore Vidal|Gore]]'s and [[Norman Mailer|Norman]]'s generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains." |