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There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

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There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.

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I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.

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My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well.

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My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

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I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.

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Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

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In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.

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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

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The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 20th, 1965

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