- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.
- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
- Early Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
- Disorderly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020