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I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

- Michael Finkel
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My advice for telling someone else's story is to try not to consciously bend the story in any particular direction - to listen with an open mind, to include the good with the bad, to attempt to quell one's biases and allow the person you're writing about to emerge as wholly as possible, warts and all.

There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found in Mesopotamia and China mention people living alone in the woods. It's this primal fascination that exists across all cultures and all times.

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

There's a difference between lying and not being straight.

The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient - everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of deeper thought or contemplation.

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.

Perhaps one could say I've worked in South Africa too long, but I believe in forgiveness, especially when a person admits a mistake, asks for forgiveness, and works to right a wrong.

Frightening things happen in solitude.

I spent most of my youth in Montana, where there are long, cold winters, but Maine has the coldest winters you could imagine. Not only are they long, not only does it snow, but it gets really damp. It's a wet cold with a lot of wind.

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I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.