- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
- Different Approach
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020