I’ve discovered over the years that being subject to both the adoration and the vilification actually makes me more disciplined. It makes me understand that
What’s more interesting than the arc of lives?
My idea of teaching literature is just to read great passages aloud or to look at it the way a writer does, which is what
It’s nice when critics say ‘Emperor of the Air’ is an important book of stories.
You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong;
Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.
Politicians are already exaggerated. They’re bigger than life in every way – their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense,
I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.
I’m becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There’s less artifice involved.
I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that’s why
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