Quotes by Victor Lavalle - Page 2

I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Enthusiastic
Cut
Likely
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Hospitals
Ill
Intimate
Mentally
Life Knowledge World
Survive
To Survive
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Despair
Edge
Falling
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Bipolar
Disorder
Family Members
Hereditary
Illness
Members
Mental Illness
Multiple
Schizophrenia
Condition
Suffered
Generally
Mental
Specifically
Successive
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'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Dictionary
Glory
Posts
Nearly
Reads
Recite
Reflected
Swipe
Tweets
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Queens
Doomed
Haunting
Lonely
Looming
Towns
Jackson
Shirley
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Black
Book
Esteem
Invisible
Levels
Man Black American
Award
Read
Won
Literary
Highest Levels
National
Ralph
Widely
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I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Believer
Currents
Faith Believe People
Devout
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I didn't grow up in a small New England town like the one in 'The Sundial.' I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.
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Queens
New England
Sinister
Mansion
Resides
Sprawling
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The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Character
Voice
Writing
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Available
October
Pharmacy
Vader
Villainy
Voice
Man Me Black
Cheap
Darth
Darth Vader
Dressed
Man Black Me
Reminded
Uncle
Wore
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Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Give Me
Plot
Social Media
Grandest
More People
Reads
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Author
Decade
Inhabit
Last Decade
Professor
Requires
Spare
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'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Argument
Legacy
Writer
Ballad
Round
Great Writer
Issue
Latest
Prejudiced
Tom
Worshipping
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One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Our Community
Literary
Integral
Integral Part
Literary Fiction
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Shirley Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Holy
Lifetime
My Generation
Notoriety
Commercial Success
Hardly
Jackson
Readers
Shirley
Singular
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Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Charming
Observant
Sea
Your Me Long
Catch
Long Your Me
Cow
In Other Words
Spoken
Swallowed
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In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Blogs
Posts
Reddit
Accessible
Detail
Facebook
In The Past
Threads
Tweets
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Battle
Bravery
Georgia
June
Mountain
Soldier
Northern
Union
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William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is a moving, humane adventure about the price of personal connections and the costs of sacrifice. I tore through this bad boy in two short nights.
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Adventure
Heart
Moving
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I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Illness
Son
Teach
Based
Incurable
Pass
Realise
Ruled
The One Thing
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The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don't think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Handful
Profession
Publishing
Burn
Family Business Money
Sustainable
Enriched
Frankly
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Decoration
Halloween
Impossible
Timing
Witch
Figured
Giant
Missed
Nose
Pasted
Rang
Seemed
Whenever
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There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Advertising
Instance
Online
Component
Correctly
Customer
Diagram
Dig
Dish
Inundated
Phrase
Satellite
Services
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Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about the humor, the intelligence, the tenderness, the brilliance of the folks in DeLisle, Mississippi. A community that's usually wiped off the literary map can't be erased when it's in a book this good.
Victor Lavalle / Author
Book
Loss
Pain
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Men always want to die for something. For someone. I can see the appeal. You do it once and it’s done. No more worrying, not knowing, about tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. I know you all think it sounds brave, but I’ll tell you something even braver. To struggle and fight for the ones you love today. And then do it all over again the next day. Every day. For your whole life. It’s not as romantic, I admit. But it takes a lot of courage to live for someone, too.
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Men
Fighting
Struggle
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Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this eternal question through the story of Andrew Waite, scientist, father, widower, struggling to raise two daughters, living with the ghost of his wife, facing a test of his faith in science. There are no easy answers here, just the honest complexity of human beings trying their best to be good people. The Explanation for Everything is moving, beautiful, and wonderfully funny.
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Daughter
Beautiful
Father
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