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I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.

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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

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The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.

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Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.

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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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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.

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It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.

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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.

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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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