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Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.
~ Nathan Englander
Always
Atheism
Born-Again
Faith
Feel
Folk
I Feel
I Feel Like
Like
Our
Sometimes
Struggles
Those
Working
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The reason people get afraid of writing real, honest journalism and fiction, and the reason corrupted people and demagogues are afraid of journalism and fiction and poetry across the world, is because it is a subversive form.
~ Nathan Englander
Across
Afraid
Because
Corrupted
Fiction
Form
Get
Honest
Journalism
People
Poetry
Real
Reason
Subversive
World
Writing
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There was a summer in college where I worked for a stretch picking up garbage at the beach. On the early shift, it was very meditative walking the shoreline and crisscrossing the sand, picking up the junk people had dropped or tossed or that the ocean had returned. And there was this strange fantasy element to it.
~ Nathan Englander
Beach
College
Dropped
Early
Element
Fantasy
Garbage
Had
Junk
Ocean
People
Picking
Returned
Sand
Shift
Strange
Stretch
Summer
Tossed
Up
Very
Walking
Where
Worked
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There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you'd been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you didn't have permission to write.
~ Nathan Englander
Been
Denied
Experience
Fear
Me
Permission
Started
Terrible
Tumultuous
Unbelievably
Which
Write
Writing
You
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There's an Armed Forces Haggadah and an Alcoholics Anonymous Haggadah and an LGBT Haggadah. Some people make a new Haggadah every year. It's a real living document... They're just constantly made throughout time.
~ Nathan Englander
Anonymous
Armed
Armed Forces
Constantly
Document
Every
Forces
Just
Living
Made
Make
New
People
Real
Some
Some People
Throughout
Time
Year
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There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for safety.
~ Nathan Englander
Anything
Arts
Dream
Follow
Idea
Promises
Really
Safety
Writing
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There's no such thing as being a cultural Jew. You're religious or you're not.
~ Nathan Englander
Being
Cultural
Jew
Religious
Thing
You
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Twitter is the best art for writers. I find it enticing.
~ Nathan Englander
Art
Best
Find
Twitter
Writers
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What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up in ideas of self-definition.
~ Nathan Englander
Able
Behind
Being
Ideas
Lies
Life
Live
Lot
Psychological
Say
Trying
Up
Wrapped
Writing
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Whatever part of writing that is subconscious is a thing that no one has access to.
~ Nathan Englander
Access
No-One
Part
Subconscious
Thing
Whatever
Writing
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When I was living in Jerusalem, I used to write in a coffee shop called Tmol Shilshom. I'd sit at the same table every day and work. And right next to my seat was a weathered wingback chair by a window.
~ Nathan Englander
Chair
Coffee
Day
Every
Every Day
Jerusalem
Living
Next
Right
Same
Seat
Shop
Sit
Table
Used
Weathered
Window
Work
Write
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When I wrote my novel, 'The Ministry of Special Cases,' I couldn't even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation from everything else. I thought a play would take away from my fiction, but the more projects I work on, the more time I have.
~ Nathan Englander
Away
Brush
Cases
Else
Even
Everything
Everything Else
Fiction
Had
Isolation
Ministry
More
Novel
Play
Projects
Special
Take
Teeth
Thought
Time
Work
Would
Write
Wrote
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When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean.
~ Nathan Englander
Book
Editor
Many
Mean
See
Title
You
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When you're in a world, and your parents are one way, and you're told, 'This is how the whole world is, and this is how you're supposed to be,' and you're terribly unhappy in that world, it's a very scary thing.
~ Nathan Englander
How
One-Way
Parents
Scary
Scary Thing
Supposed
Terribly
Thing
Unhappy
Very
Way
Whole
World
You
Your
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With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I need to be as a writer.
~ Nathan Englander
Able
Book
Draw
Each
Found
More
More And More
Myself
Need
Off
Personal
Still
Vulnerable
Writer
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Yes, there is a way I was taught to think that's very suited to writing. And, of course, I'm thankful to have grown up in a world filled with stories.
~ Nathan Englander
Course
Filled
Grown
Grown-Up
Stories
Suited
Taught
Thankful
Think
Up
Very
Way
World
Writing
Yes
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You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.
~ Nathan Englander
Linear
Much
So Much Time
Spend
Stories
Straight
Telling
Time
Writer
You
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Your brain forms a story and, if you're lucky, there's a line where the story takes over the brain. You don't even know what you have.
~ Nathan Englander
Brain
Even
Forms
Know
Line
Lucky
Over
Story
Takes
Where
You
Your
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
~ Nathan Fielder
Dumb
Kind
Lot
People
Real
Real Thing
Really
Talking
Them
Thing
Think
Time
Time People
Uncomfortable
Which
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
~ Nathan Fielder
Beyond
Day
Dramas
Laugh
Make
Make Me Laugh
Me
Other
Place
Saw
Time
Uncomfortable
Whole
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