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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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!'
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- Nov 07, 2020