- Careless
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my students, I'm always dispelling the notion that characters come like a light bulb over the head in cartoons. For me, it's like a shapeless big lump of clay. You just build it into something, and then you step back and go, 'That's not right,' hack it apart, put out a new arm, and say, 'Maybe this will walk around and work.'
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been so interested in both the visual beauty of mollusks and the tactile feel of them. As a kid, I collected them all the time.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always felt that it's a little artificial to divide the sciences and the arts on college campuses.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in reincarnation. I feel like we're here for such an appallingly brief period of time. I believe we each get this one trip, and if we're really, really fortunate, maybe we get 70 or 80 years on Earth.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goals aren't really commercial success.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you could never meet. That's what got me interested in writing in the first place.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the little Radio Shack crystal radio, and then my aunt Judy bought me a shortwave radio. It was amazing to me: like on these really clear nights - I lived in Ohio - I could get Texas or Florida. You felt like the world was a smaller place.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of dazzled me.
- Gorgeous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020