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" Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled. "

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" That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life. "

" I still see life entirely through its Darwinian prism. I keep trying to shake off the aftereffects of writing 'The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead', and I find I can't. "

" All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in. "

" Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic. "

" The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality. "

" Nothing really changes: the individual's ability to project his message or throw his weight around remains minuscule. "

" The reigning mythology of the Northwest is obviously nature, and the reigning mythology of the Northeast corridor is culture. "

" The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has. "

" The ways in which I was obsessed with Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp 20 years ago is completely replicated by my daughters' and my crush on Marshawn Lynch and Richard Sherman now. "

" In the case of the Web, each of us has slightly more access to a mass audience - a few more people slide through the door - but Facebook is finally a crude, personal multimedia conglomerate machine, personal nation-state machine, reality-show machine. New gadgets alter social patterns, new media eclipse old ones, but the pyramid never goes away. "

" I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well. "

" I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation. "

" The N.F.L.'s rule on underclassmen should be abolished, and the N.B.A. should be discouraged from adding an age limit. "

" Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it. "

" I like art with a visible string to the world. "

" When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture. "

" I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. "

" The 'Times' is understood to be almost the unofficial biographer of the country, in some strange way to be printing a kind of quasi-neutral truth or even, in some people's minds, slightly center-left version of reality. "

" I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being alive. "

" The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently. "

" Immanence, or complicity, allows the writer to be a kind of shock absorber of the culture: to reflect back its 'whatness,' refracted through the sensibility of his consciousness. "

" When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise. "

" I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. I like Geoff Dyer. I also liked W. G. Sebald, especially his book 'The Emigrants'. "

" Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and frighteningly beautiful. "

" I would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X. "

" All art is theft. "

" You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing. "

" In a way, it's taken me 25 years to acknowledge that I am from the West Coast. I was always sort of pretending I was bicoastal or that I really belonged on the East Coast. "

" I argued strongly to the American publisher that 'Reality Hunger' should come out first. They thought that 'The Thing About Life' would have more appeal because it's on a broader topic; it's about mortality rather than art. "