- 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.
- Like
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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.
- Like
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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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writing in pajama-like clothing, which eases and relaxes me and allows me to connect with the decidedly improper.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me was an exploration of consciousness. Not that I don't get into the consciousness of the people in 'The Surrendered,' but you could say there's not as much anxiety about it.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I start my work in the morning, I need to have quickly browsed the entire paper, noting articles that I want to read during lunch.
- Distinctive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We read and remember certain writers because they offer distinctive voices and perspectives, because they've given themselves over completely and passionately to their obsessions while vigorously ignoring everything else.
- Brand New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
- Korean
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but the massive project of course has more prying, if limited, interests.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.
- Honest
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write on a computer. On breaks, I'll make myself green tea. I don't want something too caffeinated. I guess I don't believe in chemical enhancement of my writing. Just slight, but nothing crazy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020