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• More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk…
• Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
• You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.
• The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going.…
• I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the…
• What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?
• Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could…
• In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but…
• Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for…
• Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of…
• Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics,…
• New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

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