When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information she/he has to provide in order… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages. — 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 you and… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
