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I realized that, for me, travel for work - I'm not speaking so much about travel for pleasure - had actually become a way of avoiding life.

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I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No amount of preparing can really ready us, in a meaningful way, for the great void that awaits us all.

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I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.

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Normally I'm the type who wouldn't bail on a responsibility unless dead on the side of the road, and I believe deeply in the importance of continuing to follow our own paths.

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We're all trying to figure out on a daily basis what kind of person to be, aren't we? I am, at least.

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When I'm working on a short story, I could duck into a bathroom at a crowded party and write a scene, which is to say I can work in a very incremental way.

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I love Javier Marias; I love his novel 'Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me.'

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I tend to be drawn to characters who are not rule followers, who behave in unexpected and unusual ways.

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There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately, what I'm most interested in as a writer is a few notches below the private self.

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The past is an open wound, a life force busily shaping an increasingly bewildering present.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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