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Nov 07, 2020

My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

Nov 07, 2020

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

Home
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.

Make
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Nov 07, 2020

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

Nov 07, 2020

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

Front Page
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Nov 07, 2020

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

Culture
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Nov 07, 2020

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

Nov 07, 2020

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

Nov 07, 2020

Movies are too literal.

Fair Play
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Nov 07, 2020

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

Make
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Nov 07, 2020

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

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