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This tension between ambition and parenthood, that's not a reckoning that many men face. There are plenty of men who say, 'Oh, I need to be there for my kids, and I can't do x or y professionally,' but for the most part, that's a struggle that belongs to women in society.

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Fiction is just lying.

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If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

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I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of people who look like me is so rarely captured in big, mainstream American fiction that you tend to sort of empathize with any character of color who pops up.

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When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever reason.

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I think it's a not-uncommon experience for gay boys, young men, and even older men to spend a lot of time in the company of women.

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Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time.

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Time is a finite resource.

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When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind of presumption of autobiography in everything you produce. And I find that really maddening, and I resist that.

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There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the refrigerator has ever crossed their mind.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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