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Everything in a novel has to be intentional, even the things that aren't.
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Intentional
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On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)
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Paper
Sea
Ships
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A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.
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House
Novelists
Trying
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Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.
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Annoying
Creepy
Southern
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No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.
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Agony
Emptiness
Pain
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If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.
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Dull
Pulling
Me Will Something
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I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.
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Book
Ends
Trying
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All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.
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Home
Real
Visitors
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The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.
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Believe
Couple
Trouble
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It may be time for serious literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and the movies.
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Abandoned
Novelists
Subject Matter
Literary
Hack
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I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.
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Men
Busy
Mother
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You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.
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Care
Said
Way
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It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.
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Hate
Once In A Lifetime
Thinking
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Where I live, it's better to write in the morning because the night is really, really, really dark, and I do believe you'd go mad if you weren't asleep for most of it.
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Asleep
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I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.
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Being In Love
Feet
Important
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Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.
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Causes
Contempt
Emotion
Poke
Speak
Touch
Believing
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The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.
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Path
People
Regret
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As a writer, I try to turn my feelings and experiences into a different form entirely, something that gives me mastery over them and also makes them meaningful to other people.
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Mastery
Meaningful
Me People Feelings
Entirely
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I was raised in a house on the far South Side of Chicago, in a development erected on a landfill made from slag and other industrial by-products a few years after World War II.
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Chicago
Development
Raised
Slag
World War Ii
Side
Industrial
Landfill
South Side
World War
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Like most people, I find my own experiences - and my emotional responses to those experiences - fascinating and mysterious, even those that are a bit shaming and a little repellent.
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Fascinating
Mysterious
People Find Own
Responses
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That's sort of the amazing thing about writing something down and then having it printed and published - it's frozen. It's there. It's set. It's in ink. It's done. Nothing changes it.
Scott Spencer / Author
Frozen
Ink
Printed
Amazing Thing
Published
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Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people want to have, is to keep publishing alive.
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Gripping
Owners
Publishers
Stewards
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I surely don't think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance - like denial, self-delusion, and magical thinking - seems to have its uses.
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Bliss
Denial
Human Evolution
Ignorance
Ignorance Is Bliss
Seems
Self Delusion
Survived
Everything Else
Magical
Surely
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Uses
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With writing, you really have to have faith. You have to have some sort of confidence that if you keep at it, you will get where you need to go, because there are so many points where a rational person would quit.
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Rational
Quit
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When I look back at my life and think about what really happened, my memory is obscured by the stories I've created out of those incidents. In stories, as reality melds with art, the result sometimes feels truer than real life.
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Incidents
Obscured
Truer
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I try to keep a steady pace with my writing. I have found that super-productive days are usually followed by two and even three days when I can hardly write a word. I used to try for 1000 words a day; now I am high-fiving myself after 500.
Scott Spencer / Author
Pace
Steady
Myself I Am Day
Followed
Hardly
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It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility - a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place.
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Clear
Futility
Purpose
Resolution
Shameful
Special
Waste
World War I
War History World
Armed
Conflicts
Ludicrous
Special Place
Ultimately
Whose
World War
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By the time I was 14, my most burning ambition was to leave my home, leave my neighborhood, leave my city. I kept it a secret wish. It was easier done than said. It wasn't only that I wanted to leave Chicago - I wanted to live in New York City. And I did - for a time.
Scott Spencer / Author
Ambition
Burning
Chicago
Easier
Neighborhood
New York City
Secret
Time Home Done
Time Home City
By The Time
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