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I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.
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In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.
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I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.
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I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that, even if they're threatened, the work that they do has an incalculable merit.
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I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.
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I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety.
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It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.
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'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.
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My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.
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My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
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I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.
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I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.
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So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.
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I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.
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The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you to get on parity with what women's representations of men are.
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You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
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I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.
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Even I thought I would be a writer who put something out every year. But that's not how it worked out.
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I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.
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I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.
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If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.
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I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.
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I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.
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I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.
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I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
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I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.
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I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.
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I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
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You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.
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My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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