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… — David Bezmozgis Academic 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 Caught 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… — David Bezmozgis Being human Copy Share Image
Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask… — David Bezmozgis Asks 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… — David Bezmozgis Conform 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… — David Bezmozgis Circumstances Copy Share Image
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages. — David Bezmozgis Different 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 Book Copy Share Image
I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm. — David Bezmozgis Force Copy Share Image
We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are. — David Bezmozgis Doe 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 Books 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… — David Bezmozgis Answers Copy Share Image
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 Book 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 Communication Copy Share Image
In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions. — David Bezmozgis Capacity Copy Share Image
I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men,… — David Bezmozgis Connections 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 Book 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 Amity Copy Share Image
“—Call it curiosity. Call it instinct. And I am a man who has followed his instincts. —I thought it was principles. —In… — David Bezmozgis Curiosity Copy Share Image
If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're… — David Bezmozgis Book Copy Share Image
Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different… — David Bezmozgis Arthur Copy Share Image
It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not. — David Bezmozgis Success 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 Amount 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 Book Copy Share Image
I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's… — David Bezmozgis Exes Copy Share Image
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