Nathan Englander : (3) " I think in circles; I speak in circles. I unravel my thoughts that way. " - Nathan Englander " There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you’d been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you didn’t have permission to write. " - Nathan Englander " I’d chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, ‘if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word, is it as a writer that you die?’ " - Nathan Englander