I Didn’t Have a Plan: The Millions Interviews Nick Flynn

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My approach to memoir writing demands a different schedule. It may be more organized. I take notes, I write in condensed bursts. I do that with poetry also, but the process is more alchemic. It’s uncontainable.
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Craft Corner: The Millions Interviews Samanta Schweblin

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All writers have something of the voyeur about us. We want to look at others in order to understand ourselves.
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Creating Wider, Deeper, Better Realities: The Millions Interviews Patrick Madden

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I came to the conclusion that what I loved more than anything, and what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, was to think. Period.
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To Be Free of Time: The Millions Interviews Samantha Harvey

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Without sleep there’s no shock absorbency for the body or mind; nothing is felt mildly or gently.
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A Surreal and Outrageous World: Jessica Anthony in Conversation with Joshua Ferris

Enter the virus, exit any plans you had for, oh, like, the next six months. Exit intimacy. Exit the toilet paper and watch your lazy, spray-tanned president assure the People that everything is going to be okay...

A Process Not Without Casualty: Amity Gaige in Conversation with Susan Choi

I have moved away from writing extensive fictional exposition. I believe less and less in the stability of the conventional novel.

Adulting in Motion: The Millions Interviews Emma Straub

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I was working to better understand women in my mother's generation—maybe mothers in all generations—mothers who are further down the road than I am.
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Giving Voice to Shame and Fear: The Millions Interviews Jonathan Franzen

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When I hear politicians and activists and online screamers acting as if things were simple, leaving out important facts, it makes me really angry.
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Craft Corner: The Millions Interviews Emma Copley Eisenberg

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I never jump aboard the band wagon of blaming “poor white people” for Trump’s election (The facts do not bear this out!)—but I am also suspicious of any sweeping liberal opinion that demands absolute fealty or belief.
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In the Process of Becoming: The Millions Interviews Amina Cain

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There's something nice in a text or an object or a person that appears polished and neat, but there is also something appealing about one that wears its changing nature on its sleeve.
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Grand Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Millions Interviews David Moloney

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Instead of writing towards a catharsis, I tricked myself into putting my repressed emotions onto my characters.
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Breathing New Life into Old Books

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We sat down to chat with D.W. Young, the director of The Booksellers, a new documentary about the world of antiquarian bookselling.
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Noah Van Sciver Bids Farewell to Fante Bukowski

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Fante Bukowski doesn’t have an interest in learning the craft. He has an interest in being a writer and just having that title. He has an interest in being an alcoholic. He thinks that seems really cool. He would never go to a writing workshop or anything like that.
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The Vitality of Opposing Energies: The Millions Interviews Paul Lisicky

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I was very conscious of trying to write about emergency—how do people survive when they can’t take for granted they’re going to be around in the morning?
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Laying Cromwell to Rest: The Millions Interviews Hilary Mantel

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The past has to be respected and valued for its own sake. It is not a rehearsal for the present, and its people are not us in a primitive form.
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The Spirit of Community and Collaboration

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Our own Zoë Ruiz chats with Viet Thanh Nguyen; his six-year-old son, Ellison Nguyen; cartoonist Thi Bui; and her teenage son, Hien Bui-Stafford, about their collaborative picture book, Chicken of the Sea.
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Nightmares, Dreams, and God: The Millions Interviews Jeff Sharlet

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There’s an idea that empathy is something you extend to another. That’s not quite right. It’s something that happens, usually in brief moments—maybe only the duration of a snapshot, a conversation—between people.
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Living in a Way That’s True: The Millions Interviews Jaquira Díaz

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The book literally made me sick. I had the worst insomnia of my life while writing this book. I gained weight. I lost weight. I gained weight again. I had to go to the hospital because I wasn't sleeping. It took a real physical toll.
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