- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Conviction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big publishers want someone they can send on the Jewish book circuit, somebody the old ladies can see marrying their granddaughters.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first read Dostoyevsky when I was 14 years old and was entranced. Dostoyevsky truly is a writer for 14-year-olds, and I mean that in the most approving way - approving of his energy, and rage, his endless pessimism, and endless innocence.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that's explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Say you're an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required?
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020
The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been able to shake the idea of family, which is to say I've never been able to shake my family. Being membered - being one limb of an immense grosser body - that's always been a fact to me.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is a contest between people with the same name to be the person who dominates that online space.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer appears in everything that he does. That said, I felt like writing characters with my own name, in fact, provided me with something of a smoke screen.
- Nov 07, 2020
All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning it can be clicked away from, the forward movement of text can be interrupted. But I don't think this is just a function of technology. It's also a function of cultural preference.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
To outsource your memory to machines - which is what many of us do with regard to our use of search engines - seems to me to be fairly antithetical to the basic qualities of Jewish life that have kept the Jews alive for so long.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020