- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fiction Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.
- Different Countries
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
- Deserts
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- Nov 07, 2020
We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.
- Complicit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.
- Colonization
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
- Fun Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020