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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'

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Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.

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I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'

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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.

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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.

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You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.

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Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.

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In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book - you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

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When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.

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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.

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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

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I came to feel that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least three contemporary novelists who deserve the Nobel: Peter Nadas, Peter Esterhazy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

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I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

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I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.

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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

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