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The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me know that writing is nice.

~John Edgar Wideman

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A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of myself as a fiction writer. And I think, if my work is put in perspective, all the books would be a continual questioning of what's true and what's not true, what's documented and what's not documented.

~John Edgar Wideman

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Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.

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I try to cope by doing what I do, what I find purpose and joy in. For me, that has been writing and playing ball. It doesn't make the pain go away, but what else can I do?

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That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.

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What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in 'Hoop Roots' was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 14th, 1941

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