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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both grown up in sort of rural parts of the South and were oddballs where they grew up. They were budding intellectuals.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can you call and thank reviewers? I always wondered that.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.
- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be a scientist.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But you have to kind of write a lot of bad novels before you can write a good one, I think, so I did that. But meanwhile, I loved the short stories I did.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
They had a contest where they would - for some reason, someone in the past loved musical theater, and so if you wrote a musical, they would fully fund it and put it on the main stage with full costumes and a set and everything, and my roommate said we should totally do that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description and internal experience and memory, you can't do that - or, at least, I couldn't figure out a way.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful.
- Nov 07, 2020
Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all the plans are for naught. The book has become something else, and I have a nervous breakdown, and then I submit to what the book has become, and I keep going, and that's a terrible and then a great time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to tell if I've had writer's block because it seems to me that it's when nothing comes, but, you know, every day you stare at that computer screen, and I think, 'It's never going to happen today. How can I write three pages?' And the hours pass, and they haven't shown up, and then at the very end it always happens, so it's willpower.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm doing, but much harder, more condensed. It's the same job, but they're more talented. All of them. So I just steal openly from them.
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- Nov 07, 2020