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I think that when I'm telling a story, I'm doing the best I can to tell the story as fully as I can, and if there are various fractures that happen in the story, then that's just the very thing that the story is as opposed to my looking for avenues of difference in one story. They just really do exist. For me, anyway.

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I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to position the writing. I think that if the writing is good and the point of view is strong, the writing is going to take care of itself.

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In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential.

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I love writing. Writing has been very good to me.

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My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best they can.

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Women have an ability to be still in a way men don't.

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I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't have to borrow from an emotionally and visually upsetting past, as one did in fiction, apparently, to write your story.

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It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

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I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure.

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In general, what we really want is a feeling when we read anything that the author has explored the territory as dutifully and as thoroughly as their spirit allows and as their heart allows.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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