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Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and unpacked it with Bush.

~David Means

Topics: Became Bush Delusion Folded Iraq National Part President Reagan Same Trauma Up Vietnam War

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I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.

~David Means

Topics: My Own Own Said Say Story Want Work Written You

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There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.

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Topics: Am Between Distance Fiction Huge Person Place Regular Regular Person Takes Who I Am

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It's better to know your story than not to know.

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Topics: Better Know Story Than Your

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I love novels, and I read them more than anything, but stories cut in sharp and hard and are able to reveal things in a different way: they're highly charged, a slightly newer form, and inherently more contemporary.

~David Means

Topics: Able Anything Charged Contemporary Cut Different Different Way Form Hard Highly Inherently Love More More Than Anything Novels Read Reveal Sharp Slightly Stories Than Them Things Way I Love

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Novels often thin themselves out to a watery hue - some even start that way - and at times seem to only ride along the surface of things, giving us what we already know, reporting the news that is just news.

~David Means

Topics: Along Even Giving Hue Just Know News Novels Often Only Out Reporting Ride Seem Some Start Surface Themselves Thin Things Times Us Way

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I'm not at all interested in simply reporting what's here right now, or cranking out an entertainment device that's going to touch the widest number of people. I'm interested in digging and excavating as deep as I can go into those small eternal moments and how they expand out, or close in, on the lives of my characters.

~David Means

Topics: Characters Close Deep Device Digging Entertainment Eternal Expand Go Going Here How Interested Lives Moments Now Number Out People Reporting Right Simply Small Those Touch I Can

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As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images, the trowel of point of view, and then you delicately lift and brush in the revision with love and care knowing that one slip, and you might damage an extremely delicate thing.

~David Means

Topics: Blade Brush Care Damage Delicate Extremely Images Knowing Lift Love Metaphor Might Picks Point Point Of View Relatively Revision Sharp Shovel Slip Small Story Then Thing Tools View Work Writer You

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I'm a relatively optimistic kind of guy.

~David Means

Topics: Guy Kind Optimistic Relatively

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I've got deep roots in Kalamazoo, with a grandfather, Harold Allen, who was a big part of Upjohn Co. for many years as the corporate secretary and friends with W. E. Upjohn.

~David Means

Topics: Allen Big Big Part Corporate Deep Friends Got Grandfather Harold Many Part Roots Secretary Who Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 17th, 1961

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