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“Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.” quote by Roxane Gay — Download Open image

“Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.”

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No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most…

“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.”

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Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

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“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.”

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“I shouted, “This is not right,” knowing my words were useless. There’s no room for such distinctions in a country where too many people…

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Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

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Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

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I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries or nationalist identity. We're going to be up against challenges that we can barely fathom at this point. So how we embrace them and deal with them will define a great many things about where we…

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I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

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People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic,…

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If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a…

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“Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts— so what? ”

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I personally think if something's not a challenge, there's no point doing it, because you're not gonna learn much.

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Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win.

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