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Rick Bass
American
Writer
Born:
Mar 7
,
1958
Fiction
Life
Me
Natural
People
Would
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My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.
Rick Bass
Life
Age
Old
My Life
Year
Old Age
Inside
August
July
June
Childhood
Realize
Suddenly
Here
To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.
Rick Bass
Life
Would
Would-Be
Pursue
Wants
Waste
Thing
A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
Rick Bass
Good
People
Complicated
Challenge
Extra
Features
Real
End
Real People
In The End
Novel
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.
Rick Bass
Day
You
Every Day
People
Before
Living
Every
Think
Moral
Must
Having
More
Imperative
Tender
Entrusted
Real
Been
Real People
Story
Sentence
Novelist
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
Rick Bass
Me
Result
More
Nonfiction
Than
Fiction
Succeeds
Gratifying
Harder
The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.
Rick Bass
Me
Natural
World
Madness
Try
Way
Would
See
Seeing
Seem
Only
Shapes
Put
Individuals
Like
Also
Blinders
Cultures
Form
Interested
Landscape
Natural World
Avoid
I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.
Rick Bass
Art
Heart
Fire
Lost
Once
Fiction
Spark
Much
Produced
Created
When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.
Rick Bass
You
People
Will
Montana
Sign
Eye
Out
Eye Contact
Outspoken
Contact
Particularly
Opponents
Hanging
Northwest
Store
Grocery
Grocery Store
Your
Avoid
Views
Activist
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.
Rick Bass
Life
Dreams
Me
My Life
Ambition
Increasing
Say
Has-Been
Puny
Would
Dreaming
Object
Compromise
Date
Built
Still
Were
Been
Surrounds
Realize
Dismay
Even
Compared
Largest
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