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“Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.”

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One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

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I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.

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Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

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I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back.

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I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.

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I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.

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I think the second, or outsider's, perspective can come as you layer a story. It's as though you've grabbed a secondary character and asked…

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I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great…

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