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I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

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My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

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It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

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A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

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In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.

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I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

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If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

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The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

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In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

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The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 11th, 1967

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