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I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

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I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.

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My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.

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I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

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At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.

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I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

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The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

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It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready for, like Faulkner's, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again.

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Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.

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Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.

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