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I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

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Author tours used to have a sense of excitement and pleasure, a sense of occasion. I remember stores having a table with wine and food. It was just a real evening.

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All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.

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People want to be artists but don't want to do the ground work.

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We didn't have a TV until I was 12.

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In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.

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I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it.

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I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.

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A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.

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I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 13th, 1957

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