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There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

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I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.

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You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

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I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

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I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.

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There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

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My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

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Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

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I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe their life-story and it would be a big success. Or should be.

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Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 13th, 1955

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