- Nov 07, 2020
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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
To distract myself from writing, I was singing Bob Dylan's 'My Back Pages.' You know, 'I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.' I thought, 'I should write a character like that.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother was not a great storyteller.
- Diverse
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- Nov 07, 2020
My country is nothing if not diverse.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny how the present can change the past.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Story Of A Marriage' was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was a story that a relative of mine told me about herself in the '50s, and it was a story that no one else in my family believes, and it might not be true.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've wanted to be a writer since I was, like, 10.
- Great Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it's about two thirds of the way through the book - I'm just comatose on the couch for at least a week, and I eventually break through it and have an answer about how to fix the thing.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You write three pages over six hours, and you don't feel like you've gotten anywhere, but if you've done a beautiful metaphor or a lovely sentence, or you finally got to some moment you wanted, then that's worth it. Then you can close your computer and get a little relief.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can look at my books and not find particular joy on every page because, of course, what you want to write about is the difficulty of the human experience. You don't want to lie about things to make happy endings and weddings if they don't deserve to happen. But I would be lying if I didn't try to communicate some of the pleasure of being alive.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way, about my friends.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up at 10. I have coffee, and then I spend a half an hour on the computer, where I read newspapers and progressive blogs. I have to tear myself away, or I'll spend all day reading.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually on Sundays, I won't cook because I'll have dinner at my mom's. She's the provost of Mills College in Oakland and lives on campus. It's a very beautiful school in a very bad part of town.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of problems get solved in those sort of in-between moments when your subconscious has been working on some problem. If you keep it spinning, you can fix ideas sometimes better than if you focus on them directly.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020