- Chicken
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- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I read, I'm purely a reader.
- Constitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
- Nov 07, 2020
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My stories are never quite good enough.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
- Events
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.
- Drafts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at.
- About A Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend about a year between novels.
- Examining
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing something down was the only road out.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020