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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
- Great Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never listen to music when I'm writing.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
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- Nov 07, 2020