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Fiction writer

Adam Haslett is an American fiction writer born on December 24, 1970. His works are known for their profound psychological insights and focus on social issues.

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“We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.”

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“That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to be alive. Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted.”

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“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”

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Book:You are Not a Stranger Here

Source: You are Not a Stranger Here

About the Author

Born: December 24, 1970
Known for: Fiction writer
Quotes: 12

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