- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Coastline
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
In medicine, there's a fairly large but still finite body of knowledge that you need at hand for most of your daily work. It takes a few years to learn it, but once it's there, it's there. With writing, on the other hand, every new book - indeed, every new story - is a fresh and terrifying reinvention of everything.
- Knows
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one knows why books do well.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame is a problem of perspective.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a pen name, so I'm thinking of getting a doctor's name. What would you call that, a stethoscope name?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like certain people's work better than my own.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be you sat up in your attic and wrote and went down to a local cafe and talked with people there.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's more interesting than the arc of lives?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think success makes one confident. I think it has more to do with character than circumstance.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.
- Least
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.
- Nov 07, 2020
When the narrator says, 'This is a story without surprises,' most of the time, this is not what happens.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are surprised when Hollywood characters act the way a real person would.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in medicine - especially when you're a resident in a public hospital - you feel like you're doing your part. But not when you're a writer.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers of literature make very little money.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It's almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It's perfect.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think even great writers only write two books that you might like. When I think of my touchstone writers like Saul Bellow, I think of 'Henderson the Rain King.' With Don DeLillo, I think of 'Libra.'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoy the immediacy of the 'knife and gun clubs,' as they're so callously called. Emergency is a great place to learn about people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I'd sing or play piano when I was a child, my dad would yell up from the basement, 'That's B-flat!'
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020