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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't trust people who are likable.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the market. I thought, 'I've become the kind of crap you buy at airports!' It was exciting, but it was not a fantasy I'd ever had.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama was the first president whose biography makes sense to me. He can walk into a room anywhere and find common ground with any person.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the ages between 9 and 12 were great because it was before you wore any masks, and you had some autonomy in the world. You had some freedom, and you felt you had unlimited ambition. It's when you thought, 'I'm going to write plays. I'm going to be president. I'm going to do this; I'm going to do that.' And then it all falls apart.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to those people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020