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Adam Ross
American
Novelist
Born:
Feb 15
,
1967
Because
Me
Time
Work
Writing
You
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Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: 'Stop vamping.' It has remained a caution.
Adam Ross
Work
Great
Late
Once
Mine
Remained
Pointed
He
Over
Said
Passage
Caution
Stop
Stanley
Washington
Professor
University
Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.
Adam Ross
Time
People
Spend
Part
Read
Because
Get
Fiction
Personally
Who
Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going to give the story drive.
Adam Ross
You
Writing
Drive
Carefully
Those
Give
Voice
Inspiration
Writers
Attend
Well
Because
Continually
Hear
Very
Subsequent
Going
Story
Place
Deep
Moments
Search
Chances
In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.
Adam Ross
Crazy
Knowledge
You
Game
Writing
Ramifications
Way
Complex
Kind
Composing
Like
Make
Chess
Lot
Very
Any
Move
Where
Choice
Each
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.
Adam Ross
Dreams
Marriage
Women
Men
Men And Women
Miserable
Prison
Difficult
Alike
Kind
Through
Periods
Escape
Anyone
Suffered
'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances - some tragic, some redemptive - that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain't always pretty.
Adam Ross
Dreams
Time
Me
Travel
Man
Marriage
Wife
Distances
Those
Marriages
Some
Pretty
About
Over
Always
His
Tragic
Jacket
Dynamism
Who
Travels
Peanut
Copy
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