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- I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.
- When I got heartbroken at 20, it just felt like someone had spiraled a football right into my skull. At 40, it feels like someone…
- To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
- Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
- I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.
- I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
- I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.
- Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.
- I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like…
- I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than…
- I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things…
- Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some…
- Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative…
- Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me…
- We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it…
- We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and tear them apart?…
- When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another…
- You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book, I…
- So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know,…
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