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Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Becomes Certain Children Face Fears Fiction Language Losing Place Where

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I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Day Family Goes Hours House Kids Little Lot Maine Play Six Summers Then Too Where Wife Work Write Writer

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I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Books Darkness Enormous Fan Feeling His Like Negative Pursuit Relentless Sense Some Supposed Think Thomas Work I Think

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It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Bed Eavesdropping Habit Joy Kind Listen Lonely Made Next Others Passion Pleasure Room Yours

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My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Age Book Came First Hardly Out Reviewed String Wire

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Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: About Admission Always Badly Complexity Embrace Judaism Loved Me Practiced Total

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I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: About Come Deep Enjoy Feel How Ideas Just Kids Leave Level Life Like My Life My Own Office Own Parenthood Play Sort Them Then Visceral Will Work

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In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: About Care Fiction Find Just Me Out Part Prose Sense Some Space Unlock Unlocking Vivid Way I Can I Care

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My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Goal Lose Time Track Whatever Working

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My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Balance Could Example Family Lives Me Parents Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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