- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
- Brood
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of a distractible guy.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
- Equal Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020