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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.

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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.

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Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.

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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that.

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I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.

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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

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I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.

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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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