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Careful
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Nov 07, 2020

When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks.

Telling
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Nov 07, 2020

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Each Day
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Nov 07, 2020

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

Dearly
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Nov 07, 2020

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

Fiction
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Nov 07, 2020

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

Nov 07, 2020

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

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