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When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.

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I have been on a horrible sea cruise. When my wife and I went to Mexico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands, I was seasick for a lot of the time. I didn't like being trapped on a ship with a bunch of shuffleboarders.

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My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'

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If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I grew up, you'd be trying to get back in your time machine. It wasn't all sock hops - matter of fact, I never saw a sock hop.

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The Aryan Nation, the Klan, all these anti-immigrant groups - they've never really disappeared, and if you think they have, then you've been living in a bubble.

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Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation.

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People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.

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I think I built my reputation by not worrying about it.

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I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

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A lot of friends I went to school with were criminals.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 28th, 1951

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