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Garth Risk Hallberg

American Author

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made. Garth Risk Hallberg

I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.' Garth Risk Hallberg

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I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling. Garth Risk Hallberg

Feeling Big Think Liberated More Write Writers Because Real Continue Going Real Thing Where Canvas Storytelling Appetite Thing

Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small. Garth Risk Hallberg

You World Wait Internet Definitely Out Find About Something Given Small Likelihood Until Very Any Any Given Moment Happening Moment Evening

I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets. Garth Risk Hallberg

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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end. Garth Risk Hallberg

Kind Something Like Reader End Want Happen Who

I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities. Garth Risk Hallberg

Thought Cities Had Major Bug Literature Paintings Things

You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream. Garth Risk Hallberg

You Yourself Book Thoroughly Distinction Has-Been Rigor Absorb Feel Ideas How Been Subject Cultural Version Bloodstream Sweep

We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd. Garth Risk Hallberg

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I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.' Garth Risk Hallberg

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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego. Garth Risk Hallberg

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I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded. Garth Risk Hallberg

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