Tod Goldberg Citas

• Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

  Tod Goldberg

  Alcohol, Feelings, Extremity

  Tod Goldberg (2011). “Burn Notice: The Reformed”, p.36, Penguin

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• I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.

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  Hero, Thinking, Talking

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• There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to one of the local Native American tribes, and it occurred to me one day that if you really wanted to get away with murder, you'd kill someone, put them in a coffin and bury them in a private cemetery or, better, an abandoned one. And then suddenly this whole idea of a long con appeared before me and I had this idea of using a Jewish cemetery.

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  Spring, Native American, Airports

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• I found myself thinking a lot about my own spirituality. What it means to be Jewish, what it means to forgive, what it means to sacrifice, but mostly what it means to be alive, how to be a better person, how not to make the mistakes my parents had made. I guess that's what one might typically call a midlife crisis.

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  Mistake, Mean, Sacrifice

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• Pensaba mucho en las secuelas de las malas decisiones, en cómo la gente se enfrenta al trauma de haber sobrevivido a un trauma, si eso tiene sentido, y escribí sobre el último día de trabajo de este personaje, sobre cómo después de pasar 15 años fingiendo ser rabino, se había convertido en rabino.

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  Jobs, Character, Thinking

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• I was aware that I had to pay off things in a convincing emotional fashion, that I had to address the lingering plot points in some real tangible sense, and that I had to make this a self-contained novel, in case I'm run over by a bus tomorrow or in case there's no demand for anyone to ever see a sequel. (Two things that I hope don't happen, incidentally.)

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  Running, Fashion, Real

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• It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew I had to do if I wanted to write a sequel...but, you know, people still have to read and enjoy this book, or it's a moot point.

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  Book, Writing, Crime Novels

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• Así que, durante mucho tiempo, además de escribir ficción y cosas así, escribí mucho como autónoma: fui crítica gastronómica para una revista durante un tiempo, escribí para organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro y asuntos políticos, fui asesora editorial para otra revista durante un par de años, todo tipo de trabajos.

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  Jobs, Couple, Writing

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• The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the blooming of some pretty dark stuff - I'm thinking of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, for instance, when "The Continental Op" shows up in Poisonville to clean up the town...and proceeds to kill something like thirty people.

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  War, Hero, Dark

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• You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican Mafia, with a special guided bus tour highlighting the rise of the crack trade, yet you can hop on a bus in Chicago tomorrow to see the famous locales of murders. I have to imagine there's some wonderful academic book on the sociology of this out there.

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  Book, Museums, Blood

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• I don't really have any advice for people who love each other and both happen to be writers, other than one of the two people in the couple better be slightly less in the clouds all day, or else you'll both starve to death. Humans really can't survive on just coffee alone, I don't think.

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  Couple, Coffee, Thinking

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• All of which is mostly bullshit. The reality is that it's just like any other Ponzi scheme: the guys at the top are doing pretty well, but the guys on the bottom are doing Amway pitches in trailer parks.

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  Reality, Bullshit, Guy

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• I'm really fascinated by how the mob ethos permeates places like Las Vegas and Chicago. I have the book set in Las Vegas and Chicago for pretty specific reasons, some of which are that in both cases the mob history has become a tourist attraction - I'm actually doing a book signing in Las Vegas at The Mob Museum, which I am positively giddy about! - and I find that especially unusual. If you don't call these people "the Mafia" they're just a band of psychopaths killing people for profoundly dumb reasons.

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  Book, Vegas, Museums

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• The best piece of advice I ever received about being a writer came from my brother Lee. I was just starting out and he told me that if I wanted to have a long career, I had to be versatile, that I shouldn't just think of myself in one way, because there would come a time when maybe that one thing wasn't working out for me - and I'd still want to earn a living as a writer.

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  Brother, Thinking, Careers

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• I read an interview with Daniel Woodrell once where he said something like, basically, if people had said what they said to him in a bar instead of workshop, he would have punched them...and I finally understood that when in a class with my wife. Every time someone said something about her work, I wanted to climb across the table and stab them in the neck with my pen. And these were people I liked and respected.

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  Class, People, Wife

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• Dios mío, ¡la gente vende su trabajo y la gente lo lee! ¡Qué horror! Es absurdo que los programas de maestría tengan que anunciar que te dejan escribir literatura juvenil o fantástica, pero lo hacemos, porque se supone que están cerrados a ese tipo de cosas. ¿Ofrecen un máster en escritura creativa? Enseña a la gente a escribir bien, preocúpate de esa parte, deja que los escritores inventen las historias.

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  Reading, Writing, Offering

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• They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if you're not constantly looking at your education model and adjusting for the change, you'll find yourself teaching antiquity. Like all of these programs that won't accept students who are writing genre fiction - what an institutional ego!

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  Teaching, Writing, Ego

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• I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't exactly how it's done traditionally in the academy...wherever that academy is...but, you know, the academy is broken as it relates to many creative writing programs.

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  Teaching, Writing, Broken

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• It does no one any good to say their novel sucks if you don't have an idea how to make it better, how to approach it from different angles and make it work. It's obviously a subjective process, right? But the thing about subjectivity, at least in the classroom, is that you're banking on your professor's subjectivity to be both personal and professional - that he or she has some sense about the world outside the workshop.

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  Ideas, Doe, Different

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• I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving.

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  Hurt, Philosophy, Teaching

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• Particularly with MFA students, who have so much invested - literally and figuratively - I feel like honest criticism is something they're owed. It's not going to be easier in the real world, surely.

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  Real, Criticism, World

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• The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We like what the media has created of the mob bosses in movies and TV and books, because it's something the average person never comes into contact with, it's almost as outwardly outlandish as a sexy vampire, and so we can romanticize it, it's non-threatening.

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  Sexy, Book, Thinking

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• Y hay reglas para la ficción criminal. O si no reglas, al menos expectativas, y hay que dar al público lo que quiere.

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  Giving, Expectations, Fiction

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• I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it made me angry and depressed, so I turned my focus to what does make me happy, and also I recognized that one of the things that gives me great happiness is teaching creative writing, and so I could write profiles of professional golfers or I could be a professor. Being a professor made me much happier.

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  Teaching, Writing, Giving

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• We understand a person with problems, someone who is wrong about a lot of things in his or her life, who makes messes. We don't understand someone who is constantly right, who is only felled by Kryptonite. Chuck Klosterman had a pretty great book about this whole thing - I Wear The Black Hat - that came out last year and which I greatly enjoyed.

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  Book, Years, Kryptonite

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