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America loves a good comeback story!

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I think we're often guilty of gravitating towards the familiar. Even if we recognize that certain patterns are unsatisfying and destructive, there can still be a comfort in the familiar recognition of a cycle repeating itself.

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I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're detective stories.

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Havana is a uniquely complicated city and contains a great many histories.

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In the world of the American creative writing workshop, I've encountered teachers who are tempted to place, or have actually placed, a moratorium on child narrators. Students love to write them, but children come laden with complications.

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It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.

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I think my concern is I know my voice, and I know the kinds of landscapes that interest me, so my primary concern is doing the most I can with those voices and those landscapes.

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Not long after watching 'The Passenger,' I wrote the first lines of 'The Isle of Youth,' which concerns twin sisters who swap identities and become ensnared in the Miami underworld.

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I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.

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I think where a writer falls on the realism/non-realism continuum has a lot to do with their sight, as in, 'This is how I see the world.' And it seems my sight is off-kilter and kind of strange, but I come by that naturally; I'm not consciously pushing toward a particular point on the continuum.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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