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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
- Novelist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a novelist for so long.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
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- Nov 07, 2020