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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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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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Topics: About Around Away Book Certain Chatter Coming Early Expectations Far Far Away Kind Later Managing Might Reading Send Signals Something Stay Think Try Trying Ways Worrying Writing You I Think

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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.

~Garth Risk Hallberg

Topics: Best Deep Enough Experience Feels Hard Just Kind Like Listen Listening Me Needs Next Sentence Sometimes Tell Weirdly Will Writing You

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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.

~Garth Risk Hallberg

Topics: About Any Any Given Moment Definitely Evening Find Given Happening Internet Likelihood Moment Out Small Something Until Very Wait World You

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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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Topics: Always Go Going Great Had Know Live Lived New New York Poet Poets Streets Thought Walked Where York You

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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

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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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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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I associated excellence in writing with New York City.

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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