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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.72,0:00:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, people often talk about the death of literature.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.50,0:00:09.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People have been speaking about it since shortly
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.02,0:00:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the first work of literature was ever made
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.88,0:00:15.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there's more and more talk about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.37,0:00:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's been propelled by diminishing readership,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.14,0:00:23.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by what feels like an increasing apathy,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.21,0:00:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even anxiety or even mistrust of literature
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.55,0:00:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the movement towards screens, everything being
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.14,0:00:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a screen and what would that mean for books which
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.48,0:00:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aren't very well served on a screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.06,0:00:43.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not that you can't read a book on a screen
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.35,0:00:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perfectly well but you can't read a book on a screen
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.48,0:00:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that also has email and your calendar and texting.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.49,0:00:52.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Books can't compete with those kinds of media.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.66,0:00:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we wonder will people read books?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.38,0:01:02.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are still things and there will always be things that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.13,0:01:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only literature can do, only literature can communicate.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.06,0:01:10.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think that literature is necessarily any better,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.51,0:01:10.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever than means, than film or dance or music.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.71,0:01:16.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, I'm often drawn personally more
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.71,0:01:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to film and dance than I am to literature
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.06,0:01:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I know that there are moments in my life
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.06,0:01:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I feel the need for literature and only for literature.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.36,0:01:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for example, the mother of my oldest friend
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.42,0:01:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passed away about week ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.72,0:01:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I went down to visit her in Washington DC.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.16,0:01:37.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I live in New York. I was quite worried about what to say
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.74,0:01:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how to fill what I thought might be very awkward,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.68,0:01:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even painful silences. And I brought poems,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.20,0:01:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about 20 poems. I read them to her and we talked
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.36,0:01:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about them. And in that moment when we, together,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.48,0:01:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mostly just her, of course, but together, were confronting
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.68,0:02:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this, the biggest moment of life which is death.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.68,0:02:07.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We relied on poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.61,0:02:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poems and stories and novels are very helpful
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.92,0:02:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exactly when we most need language the most,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.21,0:02:25.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of dire, or urgent or existential moments of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.77,0:02:27.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Novels are meant to be read over the course of many
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.15,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hours or many days. And even a story takes half an hour
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to read. And I just wasn't sure, in this case, what her
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,energy level would be, so I wanted them to be quite
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,small, but even though that's the case, it's also true
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that poetry is the most condensed form of literature
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in certain ways, it's the most pure form.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think that novels are any less good than poetry
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but novels has a lot to learn from poetry
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of what's possible, how direct one can be,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how concentrated language can be,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how evocative and resonant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I think novels make the mistake
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being too much like their own description.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody says, ''What is this book about?''
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dream is to write a novel where somebody would
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to say, "I could tell you, I suppose,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that would really miss the point.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'd just have to read it."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That, to my mind, is a good novel.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A novel that is its own synopsis,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just an expanded version of its synopsis,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comes awfully close to television actually.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Novels can still do something that poetry
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does in terms of being kind of ineffable or mysterious
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or not quite graspeable, just on a much larger scale.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of my life, I have been more drawn to the visual arts
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than to literature. And even still, when I'm feeling like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't remember why I wanted to be a writer,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't go to books, I actually go to paintings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to sculpture. To me, the distinctions have been drawn
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too sharply. The difference between a musician, a writer,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an artist, a dancer. We've categorized them,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,segregated them, so that there's very , very little overlap
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in fact they're all just people who want to make
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that you could say have no use.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything in life has a use. The person who made
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the camera that this is being shot with, made it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that it could record something like this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a television or a computer that someone's watching
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it on was made with specific functions in mind. A bridge
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is made so that people can get from one land mass to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another. But novels and paintings and songs really ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They might have effects in the world --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they might be political, they might be entertaining,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they might be objects of commerce, but they're not really
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really made for any of those reasons. They're just made
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for their own sake. Anyone who makes something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for its own sake, whether you try to have it published
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether you're just rearranging twigs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the ground because it pleases you,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people who do that are artists. And because we live
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a world in which you have to have a job and in which
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's expected that you will grow within your job
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because we like to have an answer to the question
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'What is it that you do?'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You meet someone at a party.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They say ''What do you do?''
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes us uncomfortable not to have an answer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the truth is, the different art forms are much, much
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more similar than they are different.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I'm not working on a book, I am somebody
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who just moves through the world and sees nice things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tries to remember them, but usually doesn't,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hears jokes and tries to remember them but usually
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't and so on and has ideas that disappear,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when I'm writing, I save those things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that I can use them, rearrange them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing comes from nothing. I think that there's an
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,impression that books or art, making art is a much more
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,romantically creative act than it is, as if inspiration
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strikes and suddenly, something appears
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that hasn't been my experience at all. It's much more
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about being attentive to what's around and starting to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get to know what you like and what you find useful
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then collecting those things instead of everything.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Collecting those things and then figuring out what
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the most pleasing arrangement of them is for you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing objective about it. It's not the case that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone else will necessarily like it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it really does feel like making collages with the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whole world as your cupboard of things to arrange.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certainly in art, the most important things happen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a subconscious level. When I approach a writing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,project, I don't think of it like that. In fact, and I say this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not as a joke or to disparage myself, I really don't think about much at all.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about much at all. I'm just very open to what do I feel like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working on, what's interesting to me right now,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what am I curious about? But I never think about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the potential use of something would be.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I was saying before, there's a quality of art
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is useless in the very, very best way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the very highest compliment I can pay.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if I started thinking about what I would achieve
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for myself psychologically or in search of meaning
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or in search of meaning or catharsis,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's just another kind of use. Just in almost the same
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way that trying to make something you could sell
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for money is a kind of use. It's not to say that those two
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing might wouldn't be good in your life but I don't think
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they make a good work of art. They're not a good
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting point.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John [Delulo?] once said,"Nobody writes his first book.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It just happens. At a certain point, you find
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that a printer is ... all these pages are coming out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh my God, I can't believe I did this! I believe that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe it's a little different if you start late in life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,incubating an idea for a long time but most people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they write their first book, at a certain point,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they realize they have a book on their hands.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the second book is different because then,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have something that you're responding to,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have your own expectations -- 'if you published
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your first book, you have the world' expectations.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I found the second book somewhat more difficult
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of that but I started the second book
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before my first book was published so in a way,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was able to escape some of those traps. But
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then after I have written two novels, I wrote a work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of non-fiction about eating animals,about animal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,farming. I think this is not a coincidence
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I decided to move in a different direction
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was starting to feel the weight
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of momentum. I didn't want to do a third thing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I've done two previous things. I didn't want
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make a choice about tomorrow because of what
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did yesterday. So maybe even to a fault,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I resisted that and decided to move off
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and try something else.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are a lot of ways of talking about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,choices in art. It's a mistake to think that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way we talk about it retrospectively
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as critics, which is very useful and interesting
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's a mistake that that's the same language
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of creation. Somebody once said, I can't remember
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who, maybe it was Oscar Wilde, I can't remember.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "There are only two kinds of objects
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the world: those that charm us and those that don't
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,charm us." Something can be charming in the most
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,completely simple way and for whatever reason,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it speaks to us. We like it. It is for us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it isn't charming, it's mundane. It's not that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we hate it, it's just that it has no great effect on us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And each person, of course, has his own or her own
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sense of what is charming. In a way, writing just
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,boils down to asking that question again and again
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's charming or not. Something charming
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can mean that it's very painful. It doesn't mean
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's happy and beautiful. It can mean it's very
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ugly, that it is funny. It can mean that it is serious.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be tragic. It can be comic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charming just means in a certain way,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's authentic and exceptional to you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People often ask me, why don't I write about family
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so often. I find that such a weird question.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't even know how to answer because the answer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feels so obvious to me. Nobody asks J.K. Rowling
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why she writes about wizards so much.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That, to me, is weird. That's a weird choice she made
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that requires some explanation because nobody
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knows wizards. Nobody interacts with wizards.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody can't fall asleep at night because of their
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relationship to wizards but everyone has a family.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even people whose families are absent.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe especially people whose families are absent.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the main themes of life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the main themes of literature since Genesis
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I assume I will always write about family.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Families is also especially important to me but
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever will take the form of fathers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sons-in-laws. Or it will take the form of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a married couple in a comedy. That I don't know.