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"I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff."
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"A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought." To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done."
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"Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits."
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"If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day."
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"Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing."
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"In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book."
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"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
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"Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities."
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"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."
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"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street."
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"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."
Music
"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them."
Love
"I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else."
Clothes
"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
Creativity
"I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll."
Thought
"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"
Lie
"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food."
Food
"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols."
Sex
"I'm guarded; I don't talk much."
Talk
"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously."
Rebellion
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