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First
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Nov 07, 2020

For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.

Make
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Nov 07, 2020

A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word.

Nov 07, 2020

Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.

Followers
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Nov 07, 2020

I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable.

Far
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Nov 07, 2020

I have not won far more awards than I have won.

Children
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Nov 07, 2020

I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it.

Nov 07, 2020

I wouldn't want to tweet to anyone who would be interested in my tweets.

Memoir
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.

Being
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Nov 07, 2020

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

Nov 07, 2020

I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.

Time
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.

Name
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Nov 07, 2020

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

Nov 07, 2020

Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.

Faith
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Nov 07, 2020

I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life.

Belief
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Nov 07, 2020

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

Nov 07, 2020

Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.

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