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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.
- Nov 07, 2020
No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.
- Fireplace
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.'
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.
- Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
- Industrial
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
- Inventions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider tragedy the highest form of art.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020