- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
- Nov 07, 2020
The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
- Project
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.
- Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020