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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I'd guess the latter.
- Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020