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What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.
Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.
I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.
I do not do schtick. What I do are organized routines and connected schtick - schtick upon schtick upon schtick until we have a piece of carpentry
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.
Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.
Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is
a sort of spontaneous combustion
the oily rags of the head and heart.
Even the sky a hybrid - here clean and black and starred, there roiling with a brusque signature of cloud or piled in strata like folded linen or the interior of rock.
It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.
Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.
Because all books ARE the Book of Job -- man in the crucible like Jack in the Box....
But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.
The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.
-Description of Doomsday
When I was growing up, we had a bungalow in New Jersey which we visited in the summers. Everybody in that small community was named Feldman and was either an aunt or cousin of mine. I just found it comfortable to use the name Feldman.
I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.
I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.
