“I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.”
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
