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• ‟ Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writing in pajama-like clothing, which eases and relaxes me and allows me to connect with the decidedly improper.

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• ‟ We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later.

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• ‟ I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.

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• ‟ In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature.

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• ‟ In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me was an exploration of consciousness. Not that I don't get into the consciousness of the people in 'The Surrendered,' but you could say there's not as much anxiety about it.

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• ‟ I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.

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• ‟ I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

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