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- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
- Nov 07, 2020
The engineering is secondary to the vision.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.
- Matter
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Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!
- Literature
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If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like 'The Hunger Artist.' Nothing is like 'The Metamorphosis.'
- Approach
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever utters 'Kafkaesque' has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka's devisings. If there is one imperative that ought to accompany any biographical or critical approach, it is that Kafka is not to be mistaken for the Kafkaesque.
- Interrogation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
- Hebrew
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- Nov 07, 2020