- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really have no interest in myself.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.
- Demoralizing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
- Greatest Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can't separate persona from psyche; you just can't do it.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.
- Every Single Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020