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If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out changes by the year. It's really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn't having it a year or two from now.

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There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly the opposite.

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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am.

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I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.

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I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

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As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

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I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!

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Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, that's built around the contrasting sounds of the individual numbers in it.

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If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'.

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I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 7th, 1962

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