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- So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it:
- Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that…
- Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause…
- That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality - your soul, if you will - is as bright and shining as any that has…
- Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.
- And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it…
- Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well,…
- I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent…
- I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we…
- I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of…
- What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found…
- When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same…
- When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
- It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't…
- The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of…
- Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for…
- You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people…
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