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It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. whereas somebody like steve martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.

-Karen Russell

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It Took Me The Bulk Of My

Karen Russell

It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. whereas somebody like steve martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.

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The age of the book is not over. no way... but maybe the age of some books is over. people say to me sometimes 'steve, are you ever going to write a straight novel, a serious novel' and by that they mean a novel about college professors who are having impotence problems or something like that. and i have to say those things just don't interest me. why? i don't know. but it took me about twenty years to get over that question, and not be kind of ashamed about what i do, of the books i write.

It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. i can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, i know i can do it. but a novel is different. a novel is more like falling in love. you don't say, 'i'm going to fall in love next tuesday, i'm going to begin my novel.' the novel has to come to you. it has to feel just like love.

We saw — we conducted the experiment. i mean, it’s been done. we saw apple with steve jobs. we saw apple without steve jobs. we saw apple with steve jobs. now, we’re gonna see apple without steve jobs.

I'm working on a script right about civil war re-enactors who go back in time to the actual civil war. it's kind of a big, crazy back to the future comedy. so, of course, it's the civil war - i play the banjo. i was just having a conversation with one of the producers about some of the material and he was like, 'you know, we have to work in a scene where you play the banjo. and i was like i'll get behind that.

Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. in the middle of the world, make one positive step. in the center of chaos, make one definitive act. just write. say yes, stay alive, be awake. just write. just write. just write.

My twenties were great. who didn't have fun in their twenties? but my attention was more out there, more about the surface stuff and the cosmetic stuff. i was always thinking, 'what do i need to do?' now in my thirties, it's, 'what do i want to do?' i've just become more solid with my own identity. so whoever wants to say their twenties are better... yes, they're fun, especially at night - better parties, better cocktails... not better sex though. absolutely not. and whoever says that is lying because sex in your thirties and beyond is f**king out of this world.

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