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• It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

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  Memories, People, Details

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• I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.

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  Thinking, Order, People

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• I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.

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  Writing, Mean, Feel Better

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• I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.

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  Excited, Admire, Samantha

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?

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  Love, Running, Fall

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• I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

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  Spiritual, Giving Up, Believe

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• Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

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  Fiction, Facts, Bondage

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• Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

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  Writing, Relief, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

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  Writing, Opportunity, Details

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• I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

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  Book, Reading, Awards

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• The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

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  Personality, Trying, Process

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• In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.

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  Writing, Relief, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

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  Children, Kids, Married

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• There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.

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  Reading, Lunch, Issues

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• I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.

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  Believe, Book, Reading

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• I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films.

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  Book, Thinking, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

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  Moving On, Ghetto, Moved On

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• So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

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  Book, Dark, Want

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• I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

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  People, Trying, Stuff

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• I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there.

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  Book, Bunch, Format

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

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  Powerful, Talking, Needs

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• I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

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  Sad, Memorable, Trying

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• The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

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  Hockey, Ice, Other Cultures

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• My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

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  Style, Contention

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• I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

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  Trying, Stuff, Lists

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