- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Confusions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
- Clarification
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent my life supporting myself.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
- Complex Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.
- Discriminated
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- Nov 07, 2020