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- Nov 07, 2020
Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
- Excitement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love and despair go hand in hand.
- Motorcycle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.
- Better Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020