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“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.”
“Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.”
“Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.”
“People thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.”
“I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.”
“The role you've been ascribed in childhood can twist or break apart or seem outgrown, especially when you have your own family and begin to see your own childhood from a different angle. You remember. You reassess. I think that was the kernel of the novel for me. This idea that you change but that your family, the people you were born into, might find that change hard to accept. You no longer fit the mold you've always been ascribed. When the adult children in the book converge back on their small family home there's a sense that they don't fit there anymore.”
“God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.”
“I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"”

Source : Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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