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It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.

Ben Fountain

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that’s about the time I started writing decent work.
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Funny Go Letting Things Writing
It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me – that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.
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Looks Writing Years
It’s amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.
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Courses Natural Sticks
I’m ashamed and embarrassed to say that I’ve read very little of David Foster Wallace’s work. It’s a huge gap in my education, one of many.
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Ashamed Gaps Littles
The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I’ve done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.
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Law Quit School Smarter Writing
You’d think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people.
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Life Struggle Things Thinking
Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.
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America Country Giant
I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly – for about six hours – considered going to get my MBA, but in the end, I realized that the only work I really wanted to do was write.
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Consider Hour Law Writing
Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.
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Country Everything Talent
Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.
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Long Polite Want
At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.
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Certain Felt Keep Pleasure Points
I got brilliant stories from people who’d never set foot in an MFA program and had published very little, and terrible stories from people who’d published a lot and had all the credentials. It was all over the map and that was part of the fun.
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Feet Fun People
The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.
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Art Real Theater
From about the age of 15 or 16 I’d had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I’d done enough in college to satisfy myself that I had a knack for it – I wouldn’t call it “talent” – though I wondered if I’d ever have the guts to actually commit to it.
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Age College Writing
Late bloomer’ is another way of saying ‘slow learner.
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Late Learners Way
I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.
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Honest Trying Writing

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