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My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical,…
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What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.
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If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like…
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Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
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In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
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People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes
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What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of…
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You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness…
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I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
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I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of…
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