From an interview with his daughter in Newsweek late in his wondrous career:
Writing is not at all a competitive sport. I don't think of myself as being less that Saul Bellow or more than Herbert Gold. The essence of literature is always the singularity of the writer.
h/t: Al Filreis
Kit Stolz 
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