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My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.
Nell Zink / Novelist
Zero
Gone
Hero
Years
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I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.
Nell Zink / Novelist
Jobs
Best Job
Writing
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I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.
Nell Zink / Novelist
Next
Rooms
Thinking
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I tend to be slightly fastidious in the company I keep. As a woman, you almost need to be.
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Fastidious
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If you're going to clutter up the world with more novels, you should do a little more than entertain people.
Nell Zink / Novelist
Clutter
World People More
Entertain
Entertain People
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My mother was very, very critical of my early efforts. She was, like, 'At your age, the Brontes were doing X, Y, and Z.'
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Critical
Efforts
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I was always a bit concerned about purity of essence. I never wanted a job that might affect the way I wrote or thought.
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Essence
Purity
Always Way Never
Affect
Way Always Never
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I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.
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Challenges
White
Writing
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There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.
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Easier
Repetition
Terrible
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The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.
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Artist
Interesting
People
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My whole life, I wanted to write. What validates you as a writer is the adulation of fans... and I've got that... 'Animal Review' is pretty well-known.
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Adulation
Animal
Review
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In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.
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Able
Interesting
People
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I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.
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Art
People
Reading
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Like beautiful homes, cute babies, or noble careers helping others, books can make us feel like we mean something positive, and in gratitude, we truly love them.
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Cute
Careers
Gratitude
Helping
Noble
Babies
Homes
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People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.
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Normal
Okay
People
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I admire Eudora Welty. 'Delta Wedding' is a book I've given as a present to numerous women. Eudora Welty rocks. She writes such jewel-like, fine, refined short stories.
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Wedding
Delta
Refined
Rocks
Numerous
Short Stories
Writes
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I have known many people who were seduced as children by same-sex partners and then spent their teen years being gay, and then found their way back to heterosexuality as adults.
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Children
Gay
Sex
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I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.
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Reality
Sky
Squares
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When people recommend to me a book for personal reasons, that's what makes it fun to read. It's like when people would make mixtapes and say, 'Here are the songs I think you should know.'
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Me Fun People
Personal Reasons
Recommend
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Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios where they're simple machines, and get hurt and do things they regret.
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Hurt
Regret
Simple
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What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.
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Ideas
People
Tolerance
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Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn’t require me to write or think.
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Art
Jobs
Writing
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The first job I had with what you might call human dignity, meaning with an office of my own and a bit of self-determination, was in technical writing, and only after I moved to Tel Aviv, where being a native English speaker is a meal ticket.
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Dignity
Human Dignity
Moved
Native
Office
Self Determination
English
First Job
Meal
Speaker
Technical
Ticket
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I saw a cardinal when I was in Brooklyn, and I was almost moved to tears. I was, like, 'I can't believe this thing is legal. I can't believe this thing is in the wild. How did this happen? How has someone not killed them all? They're so conspicuous. They're gorgeous. How can they still be alive?'
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Legal
Alive
Brooklyn
Gorgeous
Moved
Tears
Almost
Wild
Cardinal
Conspicuous
Saw
Happen
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