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I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.
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You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.
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I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
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I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack of movement.
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I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
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Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.
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I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And 'literary artist' - poet and novelist - is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel.
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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
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Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.
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If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.
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The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.
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The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
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I won't talk or deal with a young writer unless I sense he has utterly given his life over to it. It's a waste of my time. If they don't feel 'called' - why in God's name would you do this?
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There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.
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I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
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If all I did was pretend I was Wilderness Jimmy, I would go stale. You know, I fish maybe 100 days of the year and bird-hunt, but if I didn't go to Paris once or twice a year, I'd be crazy.
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I admit to occasionally sharing the financial hysteria of the rest of the country, the urgency to save more for the family in case you can't write any more.
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Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
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I think the trouble with artists or chefs who whine about criticism is that if you love the good reviews, you have to at least read the bad ones.
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I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.
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I used to have this illusion that time and remote areas prepare you for the world. Our moms used to think that kind of thing. Well, it doesn't prepare you for the world at all!
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There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.
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The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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I don't feel tentative when I start to write. I've usually thought about a novel or novella for several years and created a lot of juice and density and energy by that time so by the time I get ready to go, I just let 'er fling, you know.
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The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of your eating.
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What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.
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I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.
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Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
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You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'
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I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they ask, 'Where are you from?' I say, 'Montana.' They say, 'Are you sure? And I say, 'I'm reasonably sure I'm from Montana, but you know, this is a dream life.' You start on this shtick with them and it's fun.
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Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.
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I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
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How is it macho that I like to hunt and fish? I've been doing it since I was four.
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Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.
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