Ben Marcus Quotes

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• My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.
• My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
• I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we…
• I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I…
• I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative -…
• I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone…
• I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.
• In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our…
• In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid,…
• It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in…
• Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab…
• The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes…
• When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very…

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