What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. Im not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer i definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Codi: gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] loyd: no worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'what life can i live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?
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If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, i'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.
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Sometimes i still have american dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo, and i look at these things oddly, in my dream. I stand and think, "what is all this for? What is the hunger that drives this need?" i think it's fear. Codi, i hope you won't be hurt by this, but i don't think i'll ever be going back. I don't think i can.
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April is the cruelest month, t.S. Eliot wrote, by which i think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: who cares? Every spring i go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, i am more than joyful. I'm nuts.
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