I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would translate fr…

- David Bezmozgis

I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another…

- David Bezmozgis

Most people will reach a point where, whatever their ideology, they will relent, or conform, and that keeps them kind of in the general mass of peopl…

- David Bezmozgis

Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

- David Bezmozgis

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

- David Bezmozgis

We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?

- David Bezmozgis

People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.

- David Bezmozgis

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.

- David Bezmozgis

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

- David Bezmozgis