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- Joking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sort of don't believe in closure. In the sense that it doesn't make me feel better to think that something is over.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.
- Expects
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
In library science school, back in the years of glowing green non-graphical screens and protocols called Archie and Veronica, I wrote Internet documentation.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tweeting about objects means I don't need to bid on them, which is a blessing. Buying something is a way of saying, 'Look at this!' So is tweeting. So, I guess, is writing fiction.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020