Happy Birthday, Bob Shacochis, born 9 September 1951.
Seven Quotes
- When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don’t have a sense of boundaries.
- For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy.
- From the minute Europeans landed on these shores, the bloodshed hasn’t stopped for a second. We are a nation that has killed itself toward the summit of beautiful ideals and exceptionalism and ultimately global power.
- I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it’s to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.
- Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place.
- You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in – the crises in which you’ve placed them.
- We choose the lies in which we participate and in choosing, define ourselves and our actions for a very long time.
Bob Shacochis is an acclaimed American novelist, short story writer, and literary journalist. His works include The Woman Who Lost Her Soul and Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love
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