I hesitate to say yes - I had writer's block, because I know there are people who've had … - Jonathan Dee

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The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.

Jonathan Dee

I hesitate to say yes - I had writer's block, because I know there are people who've had really serious cases of it, and I've never been paralyzed like that, but I definitely get blocked sometimes. More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

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More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

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Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

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You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.

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You see that in the news constantly; done both the right way and the wrong way. The most recent example I can think of, obviously, is Lance Armstrong, who got it all wrong. Who wanted to apologize strategically, instead of abjectly. What got me interested was the repetitive nature of it. There's something so ritualized about it. Then the ritual needs to be reenacted very carefully and pretty frequently - Tiger Woods, and now Manti Te'o and Lance Armstrong, and a little earlier Anthony Weiner or Eliot Spitzer.

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The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.

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