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It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.

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I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

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I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

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Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

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That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

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I was unemployable when I got out of college.

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It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

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I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

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I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

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One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 13th, 1960

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