- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.
- Approximately
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate that word dysfunction.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.
- Nov 07, 2020
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.
- Branches
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- Nov 07, 2020