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David Bezmozgis

David Bezmozgis (born 1973) is a Canadian writer and filmmaker.

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We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

Doe, Ideological, Quotient, Think, Thinking, Who We Are

Most people will reach a point where, whatever their ideology, they will relent, or conform, and that keeps them kind of in the general mass of people. And for those who find that they can't, all of sudden they leave the general mass, they find that they become exceptions, and exceptional, and often this makes them public.

Exceptions, General, Kind, Mass, People, Point

Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn't so easy to decide which position is correct.

Different, Perspective, Play, Position, Question, Vichy

I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.

Circumstances, Interior, Thinking, Tough, Women

Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the character for a moment, and then you move back into the structure of the book. I love those moments, because they are completely unbidden.

Book, Moving, Takes, Unpredictable, Writing

Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in this moment about a much older Russian political dissident. That's the human part of being human: feeling those moments.

Commune, Here I Am, Jew, Part, Political, San Francisco

I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's because they are obliged to be. They have all the female responsibilities and all the male responsibilities.

Female, Men, Obliged, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Thinking

People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.

Different, Everywhere, Feels, People, Times

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

Combines, Dialogue, Language, Trying, Two, Writing

There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

Character, Different, Draw, People, Three

Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

Different, Language, Languages, People, Personality, Speak

Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound our own hearts--how even with the best intentions, we fail to love those closest to us as well as we wish we could. Eric Schroder should take his place among the most charismatic and memorable characters in contemporary fiction, and Amity Gaige her place among the most talented and impressive writers working today.

Book, Character, Closest, Love, Memorable, Working

It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.

Say, Successful, Thing, Writer

I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would translate from Russian into English the right way. The English that results can perhaps seem somewhat more formal than colloquial, but not so formal as to feel academic.

Believe, Lines, Way, Translate, Conscious, Dialogue

Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.

Easy, Nothing, Probably, Thinking, Writing

There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous.

Book, Flaws, Like, Perfect, Thinking

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

Eventually, Force, Having, Norm, Think, Thinking

We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?

Good, Limit, Limits, Taught

I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections.

Emotions, Emotions Feelings, Men, Thinking, Women

I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

Book, Like, Proud, Things, Writing, Years

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