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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.
- Sitting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'
- Ground Zero
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- Nov 07, 2020
While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.
- Crafting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
- Jane
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020