I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
タグ: loved, people, me, beautiful

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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
タグ: life-lessons
I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
タグ: two, three, only, people
I'd like to read all of Proust.
タグ: read, like
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?
タグ: think, i-am, people, nature
Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
タグ: out, living, person, nature
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