Arbeitsplatz / Workplace Dinge / Things Erzählen / Telling Etwas / Something Fragen / Ask Gehören / Belong Groß / Large Hätten / Had Kennt / Know Mir / Me Sogar / Even Ständig / Constantly Welt / World
When we think about the workplace, people think about hard skills being dominant, but they're not. The employer realizes knowledge will shift quickly, and there's a half-life to knowledge in this world.
I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.
I come from a working-class background, and I thought I had to be studying something that would get me a job.
We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.
If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.
When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.
I had one of those farcical bar mitzvahs where they spell out the words phonetically on index cards, and you don't even know what you're saying.
