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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.
- Excluded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.
- Black Hole
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.
- Laptop
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.
- Nov 07, 2020