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All Quotes by author - Garth Risk Hallberg

" A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know. "

" Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book - you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention. "

" At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik. "

" Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small. "

" For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on. "

" I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets. "

" I associated excellence in writing with New York City. "

" I came to feel that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least three contemporary novelists who deserve the Nobel: Peter Nadas, Peter Esterhazy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai. "

" I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city. "

" I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded. "

" I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years. "

" If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do. "

" I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world. "

" I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural. "

" I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities. "

" I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.' "

" I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer. "

" I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end. "

" I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go. "

" I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego. "

" I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer. "

" In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry. "

" In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week. "

" I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth. "

" I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.' "

" I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York. "

" I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household. "

" I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling. "

" It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made. "

" I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001. "

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