- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Invent
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- Nov 07, 2020
My training and my inclination is to invent.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.
- Bad Review
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, 'Well, they didn't like my characters,' but when you're the character, it's like, 'Oh, yeah, they actually didn't like me.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really wary of self-help books.
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very performative thing, grief. As with so much in modern life, I think there's a whole performative layer to what we do because we feel like there's a private TV show viewing our lives.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
V. S. Pritchett was one of the most admired, fun, talked-about writers of the 20th century: he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his work with prose. He was born in 1900, wrote till he died in 1997, and has been tidily forgotten ever since. This is a real shame.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020