American - Author | July 1, 1976 -
It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
Adam Mansbach
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.
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I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
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The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.
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