There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we have with people, to a lesser or greater degree.
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 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
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages. - David Bezmozgis
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.
I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm. - David Bezmozgis
I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.
People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives. - David Bezmozgis
People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.
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
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…
We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be? - David Bezmozgis
We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?
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 you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.
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
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…
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two. - David Bezmozgis
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.
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