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I began by working in a study in an attic, but for many years, I've used a small room in a library. What matters to me isn't decor or comfort but only quiet. I need to hear the rhythms of phrases, the music of sentences. Any place that allows me to do that is good enough.
~ Steven Millhauser
Any
Attic
Began
Comfort
Enough
Good
Hear
Library
Many
Matters
Me
Music
Need
Only
Phrases
Place
Quiet
Rhythms
Room
Sentences
Small
Study
Used
Working
Years
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I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.
~ Steven Millhauser
Off
Take
Teach
Teaching
Time
Write
Writing
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I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.
~ Steven Millhauser
About
Another
Daily
Delusions
Disappear
Disappearing
Escape
Escaping
Exactly
Jobs
Me
Most
Never
One-Way
Opposite
Others
People
Routines
Strike
Themselves
Truth
Truth Is
Way
Write
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I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.
~ Steven Millhauser
Artist
Behind
Child
Childhood
Creativity
Earning
Exploring
Explosion
Growing
Growing Up
Guise
I Think
Larger
Leaves
Leaving
Living
Means
Most
Never
People
Something
Think
Up
Way
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If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.
~ Steven Millhauser
Child
Dark
Fear
Frightened
Like
Phantoms
Seeing
Things
You
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If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure.
~ Steven Millhauser
Adventure
Familiar
Familiar Territory
He
I Think
Mostly
Read
She
Story
Territory
Think
Unexplored
You
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One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,' a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.
~ Steven Millhauser
Appears
Closer
Deeply
Earlier
Echo
Eighth
End
First
Getting
Irritated
Learned
Me
Moment
Near
One Thing
Park
Pleased
Published
Recent
River
Same
Story
Then
Thing
Voyage
Years
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Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.
~ Steven Millhauser
Carelessness
Good
No Reason
Phrases
Plenty
Reason
Reasons
Repeat
Repetition
Sign
Words
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What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.
~ Steven Millhauser
Argue
Become
Conventional
Descriptions
Dislike
Endless
Gestures
Once
Psychological
Real
Realism
Realist
Repetition
Representing
Revelations
System
Through
Vital
Way
World
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When a story or part of a story comes to me, I turn it over in my mind a long time before starting to write. I might make notes or take long drives or who knows what. By the time I give myself permission to write, I know certain things, though not everything. I know where the story is headed, and I know certain crucial points along the way.
~ Steven Millhauser
Along
Before
By The Time
Certain
Certain Things
Crucial
Drives
Everything
Give
Headed
Know
Knows
Long
Long Time
Make
Me
Might
Mind
Myself
Notes
Over
Part
Permission
Points
Starting
Story
Take
Things
Though
Time
Turn
Way
Where
Who
Write
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Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.
~ Steven Millhauser
Center
Escape
Getting
Invitation
Life
Me
Most
People
Prefer
Readers
Takes
Things
Way
Well
Would
Writing
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