- Nov 07, 2020
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- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
- Far-Fetched
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- Nov 07, 2020
The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.
- Commune
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020