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" 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. "
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She
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" For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on. "
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" When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you. "
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" 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. "
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" The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?' "
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" We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd. "
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" Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading. "
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" I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years. "
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" 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. "
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" I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be. "
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Best
Writing
" I associated excellence in writing with New York City. "
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" I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.' "
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Fall
America
" When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least. "
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" You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream. "
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" 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. "
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" I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded. "
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" At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik. "
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" Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid. "
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" I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural. "
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" 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. "
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" Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment. "
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Other
" 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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