American - Writer | 1970 -
Twitter is the best art for writers. I find it enticing.
Nathan Englander
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There was a summer in college where I worked for a stretch picking up garbage at the beach. On the early shift, it was very meditative walking the shoreline and crisscrossing the sand, picking up the junk people had dropped or tossed or that the ocean had returned. And there was this strange fantasy element to it.
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When I was living in Jerusalem, I used to write in a coffee shop called Tmol Shilshom. I'd sit at the same table every day and work. And right next to my seat was a weathered wingback chair by a window.
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I'd say that in place of a singular phobic-level terror, I keep a whole collection of running, yet manageable, fears.
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I lived in Jerusalem with the Temple Mount as my holy site. My Palestinian neighbors lived in Al-Quds with the Haram al-Sharif.
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I know nobody believes in peace anymore, but what else is there to work toward? As the years have gone by, peace seems like more and more of an impossibility.
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I moved to New York because I thrive there.
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Whatever part of writing that is subconscious is a thing that no one has access to.
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Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.
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With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I need to be as a writer.
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I understand if everyone looking at me is seeing a Jew and seeing me as a kind of 'other.' But I can't be expected to see myself that way. That is, to me, Jewish is the normal way to be; it's not a type of being.
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You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.
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