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- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature precedes genre.
- Genre
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
What genre it falls under is only of interest later.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.
- Hardwired
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.
- Dead People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
- Ice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.
- Comic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love comic books and always did as a kid.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020