Joshua Mohr Quotes

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• Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.

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  Jobs, Wrestling, Dawn

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• It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're ecosystems, full-fledged settings for a reader to inhabit like a place.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Character

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• Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on them, empowering them to haunt my heart years after the events transpired. And no good comes from that. These ghosts don't need us to help them stay alive. If we're after real deal healing, these ghosts must desiccate.

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  Real, Healing, Heart

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• No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

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  Disappointment, Opportunity, Done

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• I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you don't want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.

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  Reality, Thinking, Escaping

  "The Fight in Joshua Mohr". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

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  Musician

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• I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

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  Character, Pages, Truthful

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• I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

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  Writing, People, Important

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• The question why, at least in my life, often leads to despair. Why did this happen to me? Why didn't someone who claimed to love me treat me with respect, compassion, kindness? Etc. These questions never have answers. They are an ocean, and you'll never swim to the other side. Eventually, you'll tire and die.

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  Kindness, Ocean, Compassion

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• I'll never be the sort of author who sells that many copies. You'll never see a book of mine being sold on a table at Costco, between the extra-large jorts and a barrel of salsa. And I wouldn't have it any other way. I'll be indie till I die.

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  Book, Tables, Way

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• I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its readers are up to the challenge of interacting with difficult material.

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  Art, Hard Work, Challenges

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• For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.

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  Art, Book, Emotional

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• My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

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  Art, Rocks, Lovely

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• Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.

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  Confused, Confusion, Needs

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• My father deprived me of any truths about himself. He died without ever letting me know who he truly was. I only knew his facades, basically. And it breaks my heart that he never trusted me enough to tell me the truth.

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  Father, Heart, Never Trust

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• If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

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  Writing, Might, Comedy

  "The Fight in Joshua Mohr". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.

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  Pain, Drug, Mind

  "The Fight in Joshua Mohr". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2013.

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• The more we're doing to ensure we're following our joy and passion, that's when we really start to put the gas in our lives.

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  Passion, Joy, Gas

  "The Fight in Joshua Mohr". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

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  Struggle, Novel, Persons

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• I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.

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  Moving, Book, Trying

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• I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

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  Errors, Trial And Error, Poison

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• It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf.

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  Important, Pages, Nine

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• I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that our past lenses of contextualizing events don't work - they cease to matter.

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  Writing, Past, Our World

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• If a character is honest with a reader, then (hopefully) that will engage the reader's empathy centers; she'll meet that openness with acceptance, and they'll forge a nourishing and meaningful bond as the book continues.

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  Meaningful, Book, Character

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• My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

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  Jobs, Novelists, Cases

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