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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
- Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
- Extraterrestrial
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers are always selling somebody out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels dance on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
- Fraught
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.
- Box
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020