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'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances - some tragic, some redemptive - that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain't always pretty.
~ Adam Ross
About
Always
Copy
Distances
Dreams
Dynamism
His
Jacket
Man
Marriage
Marriages
Me
Mr
Over
Peanut
Pretty
Some
Those
Time
Tragic
Travel
Travels
Who
Wife
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Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.
~ Adam Ross
Carve
Forever
Someone
Tree
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I play golf, but sometimes it's so un-relaxing, I have to play tennis to wind down. Now that I think about it, this process is sort of like when I go out for sushi and have to get a slice of pizza afterward.
~ Adam Ross
About
Afterwards
Down
Get
Go
Golf
I Think
Like
Now
Out
Pizza
Play
Play Golf
Process
Slice
Sometimes
Sort
Sushi
Tennis
Think
Wind
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I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.
~ Adam Ross
Any
Chance
Chapter
Constructing
Deep
Fact
Good
Hard
Hard Work
I Think
Knack
Knows
Lick
Paragraph
Really
Remains
Sentence
Sentences
Something
Storytelling
Tap
Think
Won
Work
Worth
Writer
You
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In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.
~ Adam Ross
Any
Chess
Choice
Complex
Composing
Crazy
Each
Game
Kind
Knowledge
Like
Lot
Make
Move
Ramifications
Very
Way
Where
Writing
You
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Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.
~ Adam Ross
Alike
Anyone
Difficult
Dreams
Escape
Kind
Marriage
Men
Men And Women
Miserable
Periods
Prison
Suffered
Through
Women
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Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: 'Stop vamping.' It has remained a caution.
~ Adam Ross
Caution
Great
He
Late
Mine
Once
Over
Passage
Pointed
Professor
Remained
Said
Stanley
Stop
University
Washington
Work
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Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.
~ Adam Ross
Because
Fiction
Get
Part
People
Personally
Read
Spend
Time
Who
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The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first time meeting Sonny, and after ordering our food, he turned to me and said, 'Adam, I read 'Mr. Peanut' in two days; every page surprised me, and that, I can assure you, doesn't happen often.'
~ Adam Ross
Adam
After
Assure
Best
Came
Compliment
Days
Editor
Every
First
First Time
Food
Gary
Happen
He
I Can
Lunch
Me
Meeting
Mr
New
New York
Often
Ordering
Our
Page
Peanut
Read
Said
Surprised
Time
Turned
Two
Were
York
You
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There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.
~ Adam Ross
After
Been
Being
Books
Childhood
Comic
Comic Books
Considered
Drawing
Ever
Football
Football Player
Future
Gave
Grade
Here
Long
Making
Player
Pro
Pro Football
Since
Sixth
Strongly
Stuff
Talking
Up
Writing
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Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going to give the story drive.
~ Adam Ross
Attend
Because
Carefully
Chances
Continually
Deep
Drive
Give
Going
Hear
Inspiration
Moments
Place
Search
Story
Subsequent
Those
Very
Voice
Well
Writers
Writing
You
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