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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it needs, and, almost more importantly, how long it would sustain anybody's interest.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of the little entries in 'The Cows' were written in an irregular way. There might be one or two done one day, and then two weeks might go by or four weeks, and then they were put in an order or sequence.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
- Gathered
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I believe a superlative translation can achieve timelessness, that doesn't mean I think other translators shouldn't attempt other versions. The more the better, in the end.
- Nov 07, 2020