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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the trouble with artists or chefs who whine about criticism is that if you love the good reviews, you have to at least read the bad ones.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room.
- Chicken
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack of movement.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all I did was pretend I was Wilderness Jimmy, I would go stale. You know, I fish maybe 100 days of the year and bird-hunt, but if I didn't go to Paris once or twice a year, I'd be crazy.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they ask, 'Where are you from?' I say, 'Montana.' They say, 'Are you sure? And I say, 'I'm reasonably sure I'm from Montana, but you know, this is a dream life.' You start on this shtick with them and it's fun.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't trust anybody that doesn't do good work. I don't give them any credibility. If they can't write, why should I believe anything they have to say?
- Read
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't read a screenplay without puking.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of your eating.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are all naturally xenophobic.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
- Titles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have trouble with titles.
- Nov 07, 2020
Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can write anywhere.
- Detroit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
- Pleasant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
- Quite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success and money can really be quite blinding.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
- Different Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
- Aspiring
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- Nov 07, 2020