- Nov 07, 2020
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- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they're charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don't even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always lamented that I wasn't a writer during the late '60s and the early '70s, with the New Journalism and Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson and all those people.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Non-fiction about personal subjects is going to attract more user comments than a foreign correspondent writing from Syria - unfortunately.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't confess in my work because to me, that implies that you're dumping all your guilt and sins on the page and asking the reader to forgive you.
- Desperation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling around, writing short stories, and then I took a nonfiction workshop, and I realized that this was what I was supposed to do.
- Essayist
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- Nov 07, 2020
A young female essayist saying they're influenced by Joan Didion is like a young female singer-songwriter saying they're influenced by Joni Mitchell.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Woody Allen's short pieces. I was equally influenced by Woody Allen and Norman Mailer. I was very into this idea of being high-low, of being serious and intellectual but also making really broad jokes.
- East Coast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was raised by self-loathing Midwesterners who were from southern Illinois, who felt like fish out of water when they came to the East Coast when I was a kid.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, nobody chooses not to have kids because they'd rather sleep in late. It's a very visceral decision, and it's a complicated decision.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important for children to grow up in a world where there are all kinds of adults and role models around them, for them to know it's not just parents and people who are parents that care about them, but that there are people who are living other kinds of lives.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020