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- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,' a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.
- Take
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020