Walter Kirn

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A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

Walter Kirn
writer , writing , asking
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Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.

Walter Kirn
ask , ever , used
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

Walter Kirn
wanted , liked , extremely
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Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Walter Kirn
horror , panic , themselves
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I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

Walter Kirn
think , myself , writing
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

Walter Kirn
taking , whatever , looks
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

Walter Kirn
come , learn , determined
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

Walter Kirn
imagined , really , present
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

Walter Kirn
age , life , moves
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My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

Walter Kirn
primary , ambition , fiction
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

Walter Kirn
stopping , think , fine
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

Walter Kirn
strange , lesson , social
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

Walter Kirn
uncertainty , make , life
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Walter Kirn
writing , future , past