American - Writer | October 17, 1961 -
I'm a relatively optimistic kind of guy.
David Means
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I've got deep roots in Kalamazoo, with a grandfather, Harold Allen, who was a big part of Upjohn Co. for many years as the corporate secretary and friends with W. E. Upjohn.
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Everyone in my family still lives in Kalamazoo.
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We're all building our narratives in our heads.
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I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.
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I like landscape, I guess. It's kind of a game to see how you can describe it.
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I was an at-home father, taking care of them for seven years when they were babies. I was one of those new-age, at-home dads.
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Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.
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We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.
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You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.
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It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.
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History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and history is where delusions play out.
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