Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, you’ve got to learn to unplug. No texting, no email, no Facebook, no Instagram. Whatever it is you’re doing, it needs to stop while you write... A lot of the time (and this is fully goofy to admit), I’ll write with earplugs in - even if it’s dead silent at home.
I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel. - Nathan Englander
I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.
- Nathan Englander
I was thinking a lot about myself and my own super inextricably Jewish boy link with my mother. I felt like even a Jewish spy would have this relatio… - Nathan Englander
I was thinking a lot about myself and my own super inextricably Jewish boy link with my mother. I felt like even a Jewish spy would have this relatio…
To me, when one is writing sometimes about a very specific subject with very specific people, I feel like if that story doesn't cross over, it's not … - Nathan Englander
To me, when one is writing sometimes about a very specific subject with very specific people, I feel like if that story doesn't cross over, it's not …
I have to work hard and wear pants. I've worked really hard these last years, and since everything is coming together at the same time, I had to move… - Nathan Englander
I have to work hard and wear pants. I've worked really hard these last years, and since everything is coming together at the same time, I had to move…
You know, and I don't say this, I'll say as someone who lived in Israel for a long time, let me call myself someone who spent six or seven years in J… - Nathan Englander
You know, and I don't say this, I'll say as someone who lived in Israel for a long time, let me call myself someone who spent six or seven years in J…
I literally feel like books saved my life. I found these people. Me reading Camus and Kafka, all of the tortured teenager stuff of someone who's fall… - Nathan Englander
I literally feel like books saved my life. I found these people. Me reading Camus and Kafka, all of the tortured teenager stuff of someone who's fall…
The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to me to think, to get to … - Nathan Englander
The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to me to think, to get to …
I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books. - Nathan Englander
I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.
What interests me when I'm writing is being able to crawl into a character's head and speak from his or her mouth. It's not pulling the strings on a … - Nathan Englander
What interests me when I'm writing is being able to crawl into a character's head and speak from his or her mouth. It's not pulling the strings on a …
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