- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Gospels
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.
- Convince
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love a well-plotted story. But I'm just not that kind of writer, and it's not necessarily by choice. When I manipulate plot, I feel I lose authenticity.
- Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was one of those kids who always wrote.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.
- Ethic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in characters who should know better, who know they should give up, move on, accept life as it is, with all its constraints - life, death, time - but don't.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020