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- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpacks with their scavenged baseball caps on backwards, I will be in my rocking chair saying bitterly, 'I remember when 'all right' was two words.'
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book.
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn't bring my chairs with me.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.
- Differs
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- Nov 07, 2020
You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a memory of my fourth-grade self wanting to be the first woman president of the United States, but I think that has a lot more to do with my love of world records and reference books than a love of serving my country.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020