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

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

Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

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

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

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

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Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

From Chad Harbach

There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.

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For many years I didn't have health insurance.

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

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