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 Russian into English the right way. The English that results can perhaps seem somewhat more formal… — 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
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
