Ben Marcus Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Ben Marcus quotes and sayings page 2 (author). These are the last 10 out of 20 quotes we have.
“I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.”
“My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.”
“Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.”
“Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.”
“I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.”
“Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.”
“My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.”
“Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.”
“When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.”
“In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.”
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