American - Writer | March 1, 1970 -
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.
Darin Strauss
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Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.
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I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols.
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Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.
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In the worst memoirs, you can feel the author justifying himself - forgiving himself - in every paragraph. In the best memoirs, the author is tougher on him- or herself than his or her readers will ever be.
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All writers have their own pet commandments.
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The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.
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My training and my inclination is to invent.
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If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing.
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Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.'
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When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
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My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.
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