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Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

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Children tell themselves stories, engage in self-delusion and fantasy, but those narratives are more evolving than calcified - and with that malleability comes both freedom and danger.

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I've always been most drawn to fiction that wrestles with that death-fear. Sometimes I joke with my students, 'If no one is in danger of dying, I'm not interested,' but of course I'm not really joking.

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If I'm really rolling with a short story, I work on it everywhere and end up with a finished draft in a couple months, but a novel really demands that I step out of my life and vanish into the world of the book.

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Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the self, in a very immediate way.

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As a teenager, I struggled a lot, had several major depressive episodes, and ended up dropping out of high school and getting a GED.

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Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

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I can't write anything if I don't know where it's set, where the events are happening - even if the details of setting are minimal.

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I really need so much time to really make headway on a novel that requires me to disappear from the world in a way.

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In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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