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"I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it."
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"I've been with the paper for almost 30 years."
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"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."
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"I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism."
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"Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly."
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"Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book."
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"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."
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"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
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"To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right."
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"I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam."
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"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."
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"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."
Nature
"If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely."
Work
"I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like."
Writing
"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."
Power
"One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language."
Truth
"I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language."
Inspirational
"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"
Life
"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
Work
"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
Time
"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."
Communication
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