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Had he learned - would he ever learn - to discard the thoughts he could not use?

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

A moment would come, and then another, and then another. These moments would be his life.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

he took her sweatshirt and hung it on a wooden

And as the end arrived and his breath left him he couldn't remember or imagine ever having cared.

I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

People loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.

It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.

here. Here he was bound to seem absurd. He

Life was long, unless you died, and he didn't intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.

It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.

The problem, like most problems in life, probably had to do with his footwork.

Before long four dozen balls lay scattered at the base of the fence, a harvest of dirty white fruit.

For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

Layers like a bad Van Gogh. Pella felt little beads

Everyone expected him to succeed, no matter what the arena, and so failure, even temporary failure, had ceased to be an option.

these would be worn throughout Coshwale's omnicompetent

He paused in his gyrations to give Schwartz a high five. "I'm wearing my cap askew," [Owen] said.

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

Henry," he said. "You are skilled. I exhort you.

She's been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from what you might do

That little school in the crook of the baseball glove that is Wisconsin. He'd

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

The only life worth living was the unfree life ... the life in which you were chained to your one true wish, the wish to be simple and perfect.

A soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love.

So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.

He wished that college required you to use your body more, forced you to remember that life was lived in four dimensions.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

Just for the sake of my own stupid pleasure

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand.

It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.

You are skilled. I exhort you.

the chapel bells. Unlike most of his

There's so much standing around,' Owen said when Henry asked him what he liked about the game. 'And pockets in the uniforms.

She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.

By absorbing so many books he was trying to purge his own failure as a writer. It wasn't working, but he feared what would happen if he stopped.

I've been a Brewers fan since birth.

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.