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John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes

This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the ‘Paris Review’ and places. They’re all acting. It’s like watching a person in a play Picture Quote #1

There’s a half-conscious state you enter when you’re actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it’s the only place where you even are a writer Picture Quote #1

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think Picture Quote #1

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into Picture Quote #1

The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos Picture Quote #1

I’m just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do Picture Quote #1

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I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That’s empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it Picture Quote #1

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point Picture Quote #1

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This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the ‘Paris Review’ and places. They’re all acting. It’s like watching a person in a play (John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes) There’s a half-conscious state you enter when you’re actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it’s the only place where you even are a writer. (John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes) Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think (John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes) We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into (John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes) The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos (John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes) I’m just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do (John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes) I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That’s empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it (John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes) Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point (John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes)