Nathan Englander Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.”
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“Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.”
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“You cannot learn to curse like an American.”
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“What interests me when I’m writing is being able to crawl into a character’s head and speak from his or her mouth. It’s not pulling the strings on a marionette, it’s not playing ventriloquist, and it’s not mimicry. It’s about inhabiting a character, and, at the same time, being totally unaware of what you’ve become.”
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“Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, you’ve got to learn to unplug. No texting, no email, no Facebook, no Instagram. Whatever it is you’re doing, it needs to stop while you write. A lot of the time (and this is fully goofy to admit), I’ll write with earplugs in — even if it’s dead silent at home.”
-- Nathan Englander
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