American - Writer | 1970 -
Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but with writing, it's infinity that is limiting and the limited that allows for the truly infinite. Once all those elements are in place in a story, the brain is truly freed up to imagine without end.
Nathan Englander
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What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up in ideas of self-definition.
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So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them.
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Palestine isn't a state when it concerns statehood. When it comes to warring, it's a state, yes? The Palestinians, they live in a country, for the purpose of war.
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Your brain forms a story and, if you're lucky, there's a line where the story takes over the brain. You don't even know what you have.
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There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you'd been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you didn't have permission to write.
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I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.
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I spent my whole childhood being told, 'Israel is surrounded by enemies who are trying to push it into the sea.' But can't Gaza feel the same way? Personally, I'm frozen in time.
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I love those books and movies where someone turns because they're blackmailed or they're passed over for promotion.
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Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.
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I didn't sleep the night I finished 'Sister Hills.' It was so unsettling. I felt really wild. I didn't have a clue. It's a very loaded subject, and I did not know what I had. I was interested in watching how choices unfold over time. It's a story that's raising questions.
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I was resistant to the Internet. I was afraid of it.
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