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My mind is like a gyre, and odd juxtapositions happen.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

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Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.

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Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

From Ruth Ozeki

I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.

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Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

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People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.

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When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

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I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other. Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.

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There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

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