- Christian
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing in on each writers voice and setting. When I felt like I was obligated to write a story that was more typical, no one really liked it.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able to write about balance, because I think there's something I want to try to get at. I'm trying to get at something about the experience of growing up or about families.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.
- Emotional Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.
- Fraught
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching because I can rely on that for a salary. I think it would be such a different game if I had to write a book that has to sell well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded and very much in this world. Then, I get to play with all the consequences of this new thing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it will move somewhere. There's something about plays where you can feel that sense of artifice at any moment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and love, from relatives or special restaurants like the kind elderly man who dusted seasoning salt on French fries at the corner burger joint.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020