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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.
- Nov 07, 2020
I read three books a week.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.
- Huge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker'... ' I say it so often that sometimes I think I have nothing interesting to say myself, I merely regurgitate 'The New Yorker.'
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020