- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Crushing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my life, I have met astonishingly good people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's brain chemistry. I'm a positive, cheerful person, and I think it is absolutely the luck of the draw. I think the life I have had has come largely from the chemicals in my head. I see my life as good, and I think, a lot of times, if you see your life as good, then that's how it turns out.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I would probably have been a good mother.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite thing about Nashville is the parks.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really cry.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a real computer solitaire problem. I'd gotten to the point where I had to win a game before I could write, and each time I got up to get a cup of water, I had to win a game. It was a nightmare.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don't know how to write a novel in the world of Google, in which all factual information is available to all characters. So I have to stand on my head to contrive a plot in which the characters lose their cellphone and are separated from technology.
- Proust
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- Nov 07, 2020