“People copy, people steal. Most of the pictures they make nowadays are loaded down with
special effects. I couldn’t do that. I quit smoking because I couldn’t reload my Zippo.”
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On the congruent nature of fiction and nonfiction in “Viet Thanh Nguyen: From both sides” https://www.writermag.com/writing-inspiration/author-interviews/viet-thanh-nguyen-sides/ in The Writer (2017 Jan 17)
"An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations" Quanta Magazine (2018)

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”