It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws.… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of,… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would translate from… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory,… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask the moral… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
Most people will reach a point where, whatever their ideology, they will relent, or conform, and that keeps them kind of in the general… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share
