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Nathan Englander
Nathan Englander
American Writer
Born: 1970
Me People Time World Writing You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
So many people discuss, you know, Israel/Palestine as if it's people on a spectrum. Nathan Englander
You People Know Discuss So Many People Many Spectrum
I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent. Nathan Englander
Love Innocent Kind Total About True Naive Theater Agent
I think my love for rhythm in language comes from repeating the same words, the same sounds, over and over again day after day for so many years. Nathan Englander
Love Day Words Language Think Over Sounds Years Repeating Same So Many Years After Rhythm Again Many
When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean. Nathan Englander
You Book See Editor Title Mean Many
When I wrote my novel, 'The Ministry of Special Cases,' I couldn't even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation from everything else. I thought a play would take away from my fiction, but the more projects I work on, the more time I have. Nathan Englander
Work Time Thought Isolation Else Teeth Everything Everything Else Projects Would Ministry Cases More Brush Write Take Had Wrote Fiction Special Even Novel Away Play
Every book is vulnerable, and every book is nerve-wracking, but I've never been both so excited and terrified to have a book coming into the world. It's an expressly loaded subject, one on which you can't win. Nathan Englander
You Book World Win Every Both Never Excited Terrified Vulnerable Coming Been Subject Which Expressly Loaded
The reason people get afraid of writing real, honest journalism and fiction, and the reason corrupted people and demagogues are afraid of journalism and fiction and poetry across the world, is because it is a subversive form. Nathan Englander
People Writing World Corrupted Poetry Journalism Because Real Get Afraid Fiction Form Subversive Across Reason Honest
What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up in ideas of self-definition. Nathan Englander
Life Writing Live Say Lies Wrapped Able Ideas Lot Up Trying Behind Being Psychological
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. Nathan Englander
Writing Translation Playwriting Easier League Stories Them Comparison
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes. Nathan Englander
Myself Pessimist Way Call Sure Always Optimist Optimistic Goes Either Which Pessimistic
Your brain forms a story and, if you're lucky, there's a line where the story takes over the brain. You don't even know what you have. Nathan Englander
You Takes Over Know Line Brain Where Story Forms Your Lucky Even
There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you'd been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you didn't have permission to write. Nathan Englander
Me You Experience Writing Fear Unbelievably Write Terrible Permission Been Denied Tumultuous Which Started
I spent my whole childhood being told, 'Israel is surrounded by enemies who are trying to push it into the sea.' But can't Gaza feel the same way? Personally, I'm frozen in time. Nathan Englander
Time Enemies Gaza Way Spent Push Feel Israel Surrounded Trying Same Childhood Being Frozen Personally Sea Who Whole
Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties. Nathan Englander
Me Philip Teens Books Has-Been Read Been Huge Huge Influence Influence Roth Twenties Early
I didn't sleep the night I finished 'Sister Hills.' It was so unsettling. I felt really wild. I didn't have a clue. It's a very loaded subject, and I did not know what I had. I was interested in watching how choices unfold over time. It's a story that's raising questions. Nathan Englander
Time Finished Sister Wild Had Unsettling Over Know Hills Felt How Subject Questions Very Did Unfold Story Interested Clue Really Choices Watching Loaded Night Raising Sleep
I was resistant to the Internet. I was afraid of it. Nathan Englander
Internet Afraid Resistant
Twitter is the best art for writers. I find it enticing. Nathan Englander
Art Best Twitter Find Enticing Writers
When I was living in Jerusalem, I used to write in a coffee shop called Tmol Shilshom. I'd sit at the same table every day and work. And right next to my seat was a weathered wingback chair by a window. Nathan Englander
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I lived in Jerusalem with the Temple Mount as my holy site. My Palestinian neighbors lived in Al-Quds with the Haram al-Sharif. Nathan Englander
Neighbors Temple Mount Site Holy Lived Jerusalem Palestinian
I moved to New York because I thrive there. Nathan Englander
Thrive New Because York Moved New York
With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I need to be as a writer. Nathan Englander
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You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories. Nathan Englander
Time You Spend Telling Writer Linear So Much Time Stories Straight Much
There's an Armed Forces Haggadah and an Alcoholics Anonymous Haggadah and an LGBT Haggadah. Some people make a new Haggadah every year. It's a real living document... They're just constantly made throughout time. Nathan Englander
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Human experience is infinite. Lives are infinite. Stories are infinite. Just because one story has gravity in it doesn't mean you can't write a different one with gravity in it. Nathan Englander
You Experience Write Because Infinite Human Just Different Just Because Stories Story Mean Human Experience Lives Gravity
Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying. Nathan Englander
Me World Empathy Terrifying Recede Watching

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