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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.

~Garth Risk Hallberg

Topics: Car Feeling Getting Hobbit Mississippi Ohio Out Reading Remember Return Trip I Remember

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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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Topics: About Better Could Does If I Could Intelligent Knows More Researcher She Than Would

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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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Topics: Degree Ever Focus Job Next Next Thing Remain See Thing Trying Which Write I See

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I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.

~Garth Risk Hallberg

Topics: Appetite Because Big Canvas Continue Feeling Going Liberated More Real Real Thing Storytelling Thing Think Where Write Writers I Think

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I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.

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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.

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Topics: Able Also Being Dad Deep Escape Feeling Form Had Just Kindred Likely Other Reading Recognize Recognized See Seen Something Spirits Too Which Writer

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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.

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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.

~Garth Risk Hallberg

Topics: About Age Away Bus Chasing Coming Drive Four Friends Girl Had Her Hours Made Met New New York Over Some Somewhere Started Summer Take Up Where Which Would York

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A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.

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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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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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