If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

