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What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Chosen Earn Eat Else Famous Food Front Glimpse Life Like Miles Monuments Other Ourselves Out Somewhere Somewhere Else Surrounded Take Tourists Travel Unfamiliar Want

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I'd sometimes go to Paris by myself - it was an easy two-hour train ride - to get a break from the everyday grind, to walk around a big city, ride a subway, feel the energy of a world capital.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Around Big Big City Break Capital City Easy Energy Everyday Feel Get Go Grind Myself Paris Ride Sometimes Subway Train Walk World

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A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'

~Chris Pavone

Topics: About Agent Any Asking Based Book Bookstore Commerce Decade Decisions Editor Important Literary Made Many Most Novel Pitches Potential Publishing Reader Rep Sales Short Spend Standing The Most Important Very Will Working Writer

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After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing career - neither the writing-workshop academia life nor the freelance-writer version, trying to scrape by on short stories and house-painting gigs.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Academia After Bet Burdened Career College Cushion Everything Financial Gigs Life Loans Neither Nor Position Repay Scrape Short Short Stories Stories Student Student Loans Trying Version

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I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: City Else Greenwich Home Live Much New New York New York City Rarely Too Too Much Village Where Write York

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I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Ad Agency Bank Big Deli Department Dishwasher Environmental Environmental Protection Few Firm Giant Law Law Firm Preparing Protection Pruning Sandwiches Shapes Small Teacher Tennis Tiny Worked

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I know that 'The Accident' is not a completely accurate reflection of the reality of the book publishing world, which, like nearly any other business, consists mostly of people sitting in small offices staring at computer screens or reading or trying to stay awake in meetings.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Accident Accurate Any Awake Book Business Computer Consists Know Like Meetings Mostly Nearly Offices Other People Publishing Reading Reality Reflection Screens Sitting Small Staring Stay Trying Which World

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'The Expats' would not exist without e-books.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Exist Without Would

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When I was in my mid-twenties, I was a copy editor at Doubleday, and for a brief period, it was my job to help shepherd Pat Conroy's 'Beach Music' into the world.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Beach Brief Copy Editor Help Job Music Pat Period Shepherd World

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I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: About Actual Amount Book Huge Huge Amount Instead Spend Text Time Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 23rd, 1968

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