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- Nov 07, 2020
It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.
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In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New York, and we also had great Midwestern beef in our salads in a plaza overlooking the national headquarters of Target, Inc.
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What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city.
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Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.
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A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It's okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn't okay when those novelists don't outshine their bland, average subjects.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes memoirs about PTA chairwomen; what memoirists do, and often get in trouble for, is bring interesting lives to light.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.
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Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why not try for the all-inclusive, the gripping, for the audacious?
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?
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- Nov 07, 2020
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat.
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