- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap.
- Exeter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I went to Exeter and Yale, and I enjoyed all the trappings of those places, I think at the same time - and maybe it's because I'm an immigrant kid and not white - there was always this other consciousness; that is, I was conscious of everything that was going on.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and was very grateful to them for everything, and I didn't want to disappoint them.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head for numbers. I left because I had this love for writing.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls, when I'm unplugged from everything and can completely immerse myself in the world of a book and submit happily to its rhythms, perspectives, ideas.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most people, I'm fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of this sort of improvisation, the rigor of limitation and sometimes having to take a risk.
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- Nov 07, 2020