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“You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.”

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Adam Rapp is an American novelist born on June 15, 1968. His works are known for their profound emotions and unique narrative style, exploring themes of family, identity, and memory. more

“I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Looks Character Happens Certain Ability Rooms Conflict Gun Fairs Machines Smell Inevitable Minors Creeps Entropy Machine Guns My Fair Lady

Author:Adam Rapp

“I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.”

Knows Feels Years Feelings Girl Left Five Dog Months Not Sure Portland

Book:Punkzilla

Source: Punkzilla

“It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.”

Trying Important Walks Streets Figures Losing Weight Bones

Book:The Year of Endless Sorrows: A Novel

Source: The Year of Endless Sorrows: A Novel

“I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.”

Writing Firsts Long I Can Remember Fall Lost Walks Forget Dog Periods Exciting Get Real Obsessive Laundry Screwed Up Long Periods Of Time Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Adam Rapp

“We only have so much time.... Time will kill you it really will.”

Author:Adam Rapp

“Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.”

Years Years Ago My Sister Fifteen Fifteen Years

Book:Nocturne: A Play

Source: Nocturne: A Play

“I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.”

Knows Trying Horrible

Author:Adam Rapp

“I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.”

Dream Suffering Stuff Enjoy Scary Narrative Vivid Imagery Linear Scary Stuff Vivid Dreams

Author:Adam Rapp

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