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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

~Garth Risk Hallberg

Topics: Early Early Years Fell Love New New York Point Some Years York

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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book - you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

~Garth Risk Hallberg

Topics: Any Anyone Attention Book Character Claim Enough Kept Know Me Should Straight Vivid Who You

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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.

~Garth Risk Hallberg

Topics: Character Drawer Each Family Generations Had Having Household Know Like Magician Minor Novels Produced Royal Several Some Sort Think Where Work You I Think

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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.

~Garth Risk Hallberg

Topics: Far Go Island Islands Me New New York Possibly Take Weird York I Can

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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

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Topics: Carolina Eastern Grew North North Carolina Road Rural Tobacco Town University Up Very

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One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

~Garth Risk Hallberg

Topics: Books Cyclical Felt Language Like Made Me More Nature Out Outcast Passionate Peers Reader Refuge Same Sought Speak Stuck Very Ways

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At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

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Topics: Beatnik Resident Sort Town

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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'

~Garth Risk Hallberg

Topics: America Fall Greatest Had Like Living Poet Teenage Week Where

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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.

~Garth Risk Hallberg

Topics: About Amazon Around Doubt Fretting Got How Kind Made May Reviews Sitting Think Tolstoy Virginia Were Whatever Woolf Work

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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

~Garth Risk Hallberg

Topics: Fantasy Kid New New York Three Universes Were York

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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