- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
- Constant Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
- Book Club
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020