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“Trying to talk through and figure out new answers really helps me figure out more about what I'm doing - and what we're all doing.”

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Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be…

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We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year…

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A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

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I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

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[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, "Oh, there's literary fiction, and beneath that, there's these other things." He's actually saying that they're all of equal…

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Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you may have on the mantle of authority, but in fact, you're just a writer helping other writers think through their problems. Your experience with the problems you've tried to solve comes into play in how you…

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A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been…

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I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and how it…

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Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems.

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I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real problems, but that are manageable, solvable problems if you look at them in an individual fashion, and lumping them under the umbrella of something mysterious and vague, which makes it very, very…

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