I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
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I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.Jonathan Lethem
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
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I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
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My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.
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I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.
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