- Rather
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Department Of Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about the East more generally, but I felt they were less willing to make blanket judgments about Muslims. This caution was less evident with some of the authorities I met in India.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
You ask a politician a question, like, why they ran in an election, and you'll hear, I assume, something about wanting to contribute to the community or bring about social justice. I had no such high goals.
- Nov 07, 2020
A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.
- Identify
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- Nov 07, 2020
I identify in some measure with each of my characters.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.
- Nov 07, 2020
We take literature too seriously.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hemingway's short story 'Hills Like White Elephants' is a classic of its kind. It illustrates Hemingway's 'iceberg theory,' which requires that a story find its effectiveness by hiding more than it reveals.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.
- Confusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
To write what is not dead on the page, one has to be open to all kinds of disturbances and challenges and confusion.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The radio stations will happily recycle a badly worded statement by a politician all day but will steer clear of broadcasting more than once or twice a poem by Tomas Transtromer or Rita Dove.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1997, Alain de Botton published his book 'How Proust Can Change Your Life.' I was charmed by it. I remember using it in a course on cultural criticism for a graduate class that had a mix of theorists and creative writers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020