- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.
- Facto
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- Nov 07, 2020
If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.
- Drill
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.
- Conduit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020