Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZI wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.
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I bring my best instincts to my work. For instance – and I come by this naturally, or I think I do – I am a very good judge of character.
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You are thirst and thirst is all I know
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The heart can get really cold if all you’ve known is winter.
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Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.
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If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
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I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.
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It’s a complex thing when you’re writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so much of it is not, and it has to be a dance between the conscious and the unconscious.
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Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.
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It gave me something that is really important to me. So I always think about my faith. I always have it, and sometimes I can’t talk about it, and sometimes I can. I am like an adolescent in that way. Teens are asking questions: who is God and what does it mean to have faith?
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But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.
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We have this huge discourse on family in this country, but no one deconstructs it the same way. People talk about “the American family.” The right wing has this thing – Focus on the Family. What the hell is that?
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Words were different when they lived inside of you.
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I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.
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I do that with all of my characters. They have one of the flaws I have, and I zero in on that flaw.
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I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.
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