- I Was Raised
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, Alice Munro. They're very different writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common thread, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the first place.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt that writing can be learned but not really taught. The best thing somebody can do for you is to put the right book in your hands at the right time. I grew up in a family where the right book was always being put in my hands.
- Grandfathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.
- Mine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working in a prison, is, to my mind, similar in ways to working in a coal mine. It's going to scare away a lot of people.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020