- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything to fit is - sometimes seems impossible. Writing a novel, though, is - has its own challenges of scope. And I think of that as painting a mural, where the challenge is that if you are close enough to work on it, you're too close to see the whole thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a short story, you can use someone - we're only going to be with that person for maybe 10 pages, and they can have sort of a one note personality. And in a novel, you need to have arrows pointing more than one direction for that person.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terribly intellectual. I will admit, though, to crying when I've read books aloud to my elementary class. We read a biography of Gandhi once, and it was very difficult to read the part where Gandhi was killed, because they were waiting for a happy ending.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite its challenges, the novel offers an opportunity to live in one story for years of your imaginative life. There's a tremendous richness to that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020