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• Probably because I personally knew at least six or seven people in Ross County who died from overdoses in the last three years. The heroin epidemic is just too aggravating and sad and unsettling for even someone like me to live with and think about for the time it would take to write a book dealing with it.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I think my characters - well, at least a few of them - are hoping or searching for some kind of contact with god.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Character, Thinking, Kind

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• One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of god in their lives, good souls who believe devoutly in a supreme being and an afterlife.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Good Life, Believe, Writing

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• The biggest influence on my writing, besides snagging some ideas about black humor, was that the paper mill had a program where they paid 75 percent of the tuition and book [costs] for employees who wanted to go to college part-time.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Book, Writing, College

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• I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Ohio, Degrees, University

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• I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Writing, Trying, Degrees

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• [Degree in English] gave me a little more self-confidence, to know that I'd managed to complete something like that.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Self Confidence, Degrees, Littles

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• Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Men, Nuts, America

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• I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Nice, Writing, Looks

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• I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and I know if I tried to write those books the way I wrote the stories it would take me years to finish.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Couple, Book, Writing

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