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Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes

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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Time Hate Reading You Lose Seeing

I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Love New York Early New Years Point

Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book - you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Character Me Book Enough Attention

I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Work Family Character Think You

I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.

Garth Risk Hallberg

New York Me Weird I Can Go New

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Road University Up Rural Tobacco

One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Nature Me Speak Language Passionate

At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Town Sort Resident Beatnik

I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'

Garth Risk Hallberg

America Week Fall Living Poet Where

It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Work Think Doubt Kind Sitting May

Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

Garth Risk Hallberg

New York New Three Fantasy Kid Were

I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Car Reading Remember Feeling Out

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