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Someone who plays hard every shift, it's pretty admirable for a young guy.

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Peter Orner

What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.

Gut, Guts, Novel, Short Story, Story

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My first book came out again - the re-issue from 2001. I was rereading it to make sure that I didn't miss any mistakes, and I didn't know who had written some of these stories. I really didn't. I am a different person now. It's weird. I think if stories are good, they have to have a life of their own that's independent of the writer. I like to think of my characters out there in other peoples' heads. That's a nice thing to think about.

2001, Book, Independent, Mistake, Nice, Writer

Maybe my work is somewhat divided into family stories, things I know intimately, and then everybody else in the world - the strangers who I am totally fascinated with.

Everybody, Family, Know, Somewhat, Stranger, World

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

Book, Collection, Decades, Stories, Years

I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after.

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I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

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To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.

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The idea of equality is misunderstood. I wouldn't ever argue that everyone is the same, but that differences should not be hierarchical. Attitudes and expectations have been imposed on both men and women. For instance, men had very little to do with the raising of their children before the women's movement. The women's movement has freed men to become more active as fathers. We're living in a period of transition, but change can be much slower than we want, with unintended consequences, and can also be happening without our seeing it.

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I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.

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