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- I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent…
- I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years.…
- That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I…
- Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a…
- I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.
- The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
- I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about…
- What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and…
- One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
- I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like…
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