- 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