I love my music and recording people.
I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.
The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.
There's relief in white space for the reader.
Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.
Another obligation that I have as a teacher is to make available to students a range of options and devices and approaches, rather than saying "well here's one way to do it and that's the only way that's good. "
Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.
A lot of people hate my skepticism, and I think I understand why. The psychics offer wonders and endless possibilities in a world that often seems difficult and mundane. They promise health, wealth, wisdom, eternal life. But if you examine the record, it's not the psychics but the hard-nosed scientists who have actually delivered the things that improve human life. And, to me, science describes a world far more interesting than any psychic fantasy. It's a good world -- not perfect -- but it's ours. So we'd better learn to live with it, the way it is.
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.
That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.