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- Nov 07, 2020
People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
- Dawned
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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- Nov 07, 2020