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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.06,0:00:01.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Louisiana channel)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.43,0:00:02.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Jonathan Safran Foer\Nnovels have a lot to learn from poetry)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.63,0:00:06.50,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,,I think 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: 0,0:00:11.88,0:00:14.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there's more and more talk about it
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.41,0:00:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and 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: 0,0:00:23.21,0:00:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even anxiety or even mistrust of literature
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.27,0:00:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the movement towards screens, everything being
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.14,0:00:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a screen and what would that mean for books
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.48,0:00:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which aren't very well served on a screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.80,0:00:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not that you can't read a book on a screen perfectly well
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.32,0:00:45.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you can't read a book on a screen
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.48,0:00:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that also has email and your calendar and texting.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.80,0:00:52.66,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: 0,0:00:56.38,0:01:01.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that there are still things and there will always be things
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.77,0:01:06.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that only literature can do, only literature can communicate.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.51,0:01:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think that literature is necessarily any better,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.77,0:01:12.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever than means, than film or dance or music.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.15,0:01:17.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, I'm often drawn personally more
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.03,0:01:19.06,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: 0,0:01:21.06,0:01:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I feel a need for literature and only for literature.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.08,0:01:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for example, the mother of my oldest friend
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.63,0:01:30.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passed away about week ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.01,0:01:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I went down to visit her in Washington DC - I live in New York.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.36,0:01:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was quite worried about what to say and how to fill
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.58,0:01:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I thought might be very awkward, or even painful silences.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.90,0:01:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I brought poems, about 20 poems.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.08,0:01:50.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I read them to her and we talked about them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.02,0:01:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in that moment when we, together,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.10,0:01:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mostly just her, of course, but together, were confronting
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.07,0:02:03.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this, the biggest moment of life which is death,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.51,0:02:07.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we relied on poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.50,0:02:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that poems and stories and novels are very helpful
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.47,0:02:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exactly when we most need language in the most, sort of dire,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.76,0:02:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or urgent or existential moments of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.31,0:02:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Novels are meant to be read over the course of many hours or many days
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.98,0:02:34.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even a story takes half an hour to read.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.61,0:02:39.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I just wasn't sure, in this case, what her energy level would be,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.17,0:02:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I wanted them to be quite small.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.84,0:02:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even though that's the case, it's also true
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.90,0:02:47.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that poetry is the most condensed form of literature
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.21,0:02:48.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in certain ways, it's its most pure form.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.69,0:02:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think that novels are any less good than poetry
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.53,0:02:59.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I think that novels have a lot to learn from poetry
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.74,0:03:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of what's possible, how direct one can be,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.93,0:03:06.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how concentrated language can be,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.55,0:03:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how evocative and resonant.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.38,0:03:11.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, sometimes I think novels make the mistake
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.53,0:03:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being too much like their own description.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.64,0:03:18.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know,omebody says, ''What is this book about?''
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.26,0:03:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dream is to write a novel where somebody would have to say:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.78,0:03:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I could tell you, I suppose, but that would really miss the point.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.28,0:03:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just have to read it."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.32,0:03:28.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That, to my mind, is a good novel.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.74,0:03:31.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A novel that is its own synopsis,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.82,0:03:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just an expanded version of its synopsis,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.06,0:03:37.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comes awfully close to television actually.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.01,0:03:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that novels can still do something that poetry does
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.42,0:03:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of being kind of ineffable or mysterious
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.90,0:03:52.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or not quite graspeable, just on a much larger scale.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.29,0:03:57.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of my life, I have been more drawn to the visual arts than to literature.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.49,0:04:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even still, when I'm feeling
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.54,0:04:05.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like I can't remember why I wanted to be a writer,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.34,0:04:10.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't go to books, I actually go to paintings or sculpture.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.77,0:04:14.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To me, the distinctions have been drawn too sharply,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.47,0:04:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, the difference between a musician, a writer, an artist, a dancer.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.87,0:04:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've categorized them, segregated them,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.56,0:04:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that there's very , very little overlap.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.76,0:04:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in fact they're all just people who want to make things
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.86,0:04:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you could say have no use.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.02,0:04:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, everything in life has a use.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.06,0:04:41.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The person who made the camera that this is being shot with,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.67,0:04:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made it so that it could record something like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.88,0:04:48.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a television or a computer that someone's watching it on
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.25,0:04:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was made with specific functions in mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.50,0:04:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A bridge is made so that people can get from one land mass to another.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.51,0:04:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But novels and paintings and songs really ...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.35,0:04:59.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They might have effects in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.81,0:05:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they might be political, they might be entertaining,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.09,0:05:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they might be objects of commerce,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.62,0:05:07.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they're not really, really made for any of those reasons,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.91,0:05:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're just made for their own sake.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.15,0:05:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that anyone who makes something for its own sake,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.68,0:05:16.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether you try to have it published
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.15,0:05:19.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether you're just, you know, rearranging twigs on the ground
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.41,0:05:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it pleases you,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.69,0:05:23.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people who do that are artists.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.07,0:05:28.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, you know, because we live in a world in which you have to have a job
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.22,0:05:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in which it's expected that you will grow within your job,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.10,0:05:36.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because we like to have an answer to the question
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.61,0:05:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'What is it that you do?'
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.89,0:05:39.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, you meet someone at a party, or...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.24,0:05:40.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they say ''What do you do?''
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.20,0:05:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes us uncomfortable not to have an answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.40,0:05:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the truth is, you know, the different art forms
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.12,0:05:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are much, much more similar than they are different.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.31,0:05:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I'm not working on a book,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.22,0:05:57.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am somebody who just kind of moves through the world
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.44,0:06:00.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sees nice things and tries to remember them, but usually doesn't,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.23,0:06:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hears jokes and tries to remember them but usually doesn't
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.48,0:06:08.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so on and has ideas that disappear.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.59,0:06:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when I'm writing, I save those things
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.94,0:06:16.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that I can use them, you know, rearrange them.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.49,0:06:18.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing comes from nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.26,0:06:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that there's an impression that books or art,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.31,0:06:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making art is a much more romantically creative act than it is,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.00,0:06:33.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if inspiration strikes and suddenly, something appears
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.39,0:06:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's not really -- that hasn't been my experience at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.92,0:06:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's much more about being attentive to what's around
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.84,0:06:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and starting to get to know what you like and what you find useful
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.56,0:06:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then collecting those things instead of everything,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.98,0:06:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,collecting those things and then figuring out
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.96,0:06:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the most pleasing arrangement of them is for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.51,0:06:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing objective about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.03,0:06:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not the case that, you know, someone else will necessarily like it,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.29,0:07:04.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it really does feel like making collage just with, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.49,0:07:11.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the whole world as your cupboard of things to arrange.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.80,0:07:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certainly in art, I think, the most important things
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.70,0:07:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happen on a subconscious level.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.57,0:07:20.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I approach a writing project, I don't think about it like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.56,0:07:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, and I say this not as a joke or to sort of disparage myself,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.71,0:07:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I really don't think about much at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.81,0:07:33.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very -- I'm just very open, you know, to what do I feel like working on,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.26,0:07:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's interesting to me right now, what am I curious about?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.86,0:07:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I never think about what the potential use of something would be.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.27,0:07:44.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I was saying before, there's a quality of art
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.43,0:07:46.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is useless in the very, very best way.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.83,0:07:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, that is like the very highest compliment I could pay.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.32,0:07:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if I started thinking about what I would achieve
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.37,0:07:58.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for myself psychologically or in search of meaning or catharsis,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.57,0:07:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's just another kind of use,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.96,0:08:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just in almost the same way that
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.05,0:08:05.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to make something you could sell for money is a kind of use.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.78,0:08:07.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not to say that those two thing might, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.79,0:08:08.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wouldn't be good in your life,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.94,0:08:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I don't think that they make a good work of art.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.88,0:08:14.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're not a good starting point.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.27,0:08:17.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don DeLillo once said:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.66,0:08:20.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Nobody writes his first book. It just happens."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.89,0:08:22.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At a certain point, you find the printer is, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.99,0:08:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all these pages are coming out.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.30,0:08:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You think: "Oh my God, I can't believe I did this!"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.80,0:08:28.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.09,0:08:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, maybe it's a little different if you start late in life,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.21,0:08:38.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you've been, you know, sort of incubating an idea for a long time
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.94,0:08:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but most people when they write their first book,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.96,0:08:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a certain point, they realize they have a book on their hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.70,0:08:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the second book is different because then,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.77,0:08:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have something that you're responding to,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.58,0:08:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have your own expectations.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.22,0:08:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you published your first book, you have the world' expectations.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.58,0:08:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I found the second book somewhat more difficult because of that,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.60,0:09:01.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'd started the second book before my first book was published.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.33,0:09:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in a way, I was able to escape some of those traps.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.50,0:09:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then, after I have written two novels,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.64,0:09:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wrote a work of non-fiction about eating animals,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.64,0:09:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about animal farming.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.12,0:09:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think tit'ss not a coincidence that I decided to move in a different direction
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.40,0:09:20.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was starting to feel the weight of momentum.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.51,0:09:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I didn't want to do a third thing because I've done two previous things.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.76,0:09:28.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't want to make a choice about tomorrow
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.53,0:09:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just because of what I did yesterday.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.09,0:09:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So maybe even to a fault, I resisted that
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.66,0:09:38.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and decided to move off and try something else.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.52,0:09:44.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think there are a lot of ways of talking about choices in art.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.94,0:09:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's a mistake to think that
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.98,0:09:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way we talk about it retrospectively as critics,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.44,0:09:55.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is very useful and interesting,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.20,0:09:58.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's a mistake that that's the same language of creation.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.75,0:10:01.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody once said, I can't remember who
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.42,0:10:03.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- maybe it was Oscar Wilde, I can't remember -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.96,0:10:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,said: "There are only two kinds of objects in the world:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.16,0:10:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those that charm us and those that don't charm us."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.84,0:10:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, you know, something can be charming in the most completely simple way
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.88,0:10:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for whatever reason, it speaks to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.06,0:10:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We like it. It is for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.20,0:10:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If something isn't charming, it's mundane and it's not that we hate it,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.64,0:10:24.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's just that it has no great effect on us.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.42,0:10:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And each person, of course, has his own or her own sense of what is charming.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.57,0:10:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, you know, in a way,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.72,0:10:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,writing just boils down to asking that question again and again,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.71,0:10:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like, this is charming or not.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.95,0:10:41.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something charming can mean that it's very painful.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.49,0:10:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't mean that it's happy and beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.04,0:10:49.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can mean it's very ugly, it can mean that it is funny,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.67,0:10:52.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can mean that it is serious, it can be tragic, it can be comic.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.26,0:10:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think charming really just means, in a certain way,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.26,0:11:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's authentic and exceptional to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.94,0:11:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, people often ask me, why do I write about family so often.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.73,0:11:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find that such a weird question.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.07,0:11:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't even know how to answer
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.20,0:11:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the answer feels so obvious to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.88,0:11:13.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, nobody asks J.K. Rowling why she writes about wizards so much.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.47,0:11:15.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That, to me, is weird.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.66,0:11:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a weird choice she made that requires some explanation
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.73,0:11:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because nobody knows wizards, nobody interacts with wizards,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.58,0:11:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nobody can't fall asleep at night because of their relationship to wizards,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.86,0:11:27.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but everyone has a family.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.62,0:11:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even people whose families are absent.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.13,0:11:32.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe even, especially people whose families are absent.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.13,0:11:34.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, these are the main themes of life
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.89,0:11:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they've been the main themes of literature since Genesis.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.19,0:11:43.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I assume I'll always write about family.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.12,0:11:46.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Families is also especially important to me
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.02,0:11:51.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you know, whether it will take the form of fathers and sons-in-laws,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.85,0:11:54.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether it will take the form of a married couple in a comedy,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.60,0:11:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I don't know.
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