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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
On a good day I write, all day.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation - to see your father on the street. It's hard enough to pick up somebody you don't know from the streets, and then to actually have other people pick your father up - it was psychically devastating.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it's not a simple answer. To see Julianne Moore play your mother. To see Paul Dano play you - that's an even more inscrutable question... he's amazing, he's totally amazing, but I can't really say if he's a good me or not.
- Nov 07, 2020