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A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.

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I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

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Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

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The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness.

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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

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Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

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The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

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Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

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I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

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I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 13th, 1960

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