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- So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my…
- I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think…
- I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.
- That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
- I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out…
- I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of…
- I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually…
- I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized on its wistful…
- Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is…
- We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did…
- I picture it like Judgement Day,' he says finally, his eyes on the water. 'We'll rise up out of our bodies and find each other…
- He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house…
- At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of a…
- The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.
- It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.
- When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because…
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