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I have this dream again and again: I find extra rooms in the place where I live. You could say it's a very New York dream, but I think it's about writing - the feeling that there is something behind a wall or a door.

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Time is always a component of place; you can't really talk about where without talking about when.

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When I think about a book like 'A Clockwork Orange,' which I really loved, the weird hybrid language is what I remember most.

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I've been interested in terrorism from the very beginning. My first novel is about that, too, and I think one reason I've been so interested in terrorism is because I have a deep interest - one of my deepest interests - in image culture and how it works. And terrorism is an epiphenomenon of image culture.

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I haven't read a lot of science fiction, and I never intend to write it; it seems to happen a little bit inadvertently for me, in that I'm trying to follow people into points in their lives that demand that I investigate the future.

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I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories.

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I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

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I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

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I knew as far back as 2001 that I would write a book called 'A Visit From the Goon Squad,' though I had no idea what kind of book it would be.

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I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 7th, 1962

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