I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it.
BRET EASTON ELLISI like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
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Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?’ […] ‘”When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things.
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I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
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People are afraid to merge.
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Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it’s not relating in prose what you’ve been doing for the last two or three years.
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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
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And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn’t and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn’t change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.
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I have to return some videotapes
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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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When I’m writing a book, I’m not thinking, “Oh, this would be a great movie.” This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.
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