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I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.