- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
- Block
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in writer's block.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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- Nov 07, 2020