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Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and... →
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.
Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.
Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.
Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the... →
Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.
I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth... →
It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.
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