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I don't begin a novel until i have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, i know what the voice is.
I'm not proselytizing my method. i don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.
I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. and i believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.
I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. i begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that i would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule makes me, i suppose, seem all the more old-fashioned. i believe in rules of behavior, and i'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
I'm a worst-case scenario person. i'm only interested in a story because i kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.
If you asked me one day, i might say, "well, sometimes i feel a little bit religious." if you asked me another day, i'd just say flat out, "no."
Ted seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. this was essential to me, both as a student - and not a good one - and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.
It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.
If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, i was expected to go to church on sunday. it wasn't terribly painful.
Born: March 2, 1942
Occupation: Novelist
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