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No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

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I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

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A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.

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I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

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Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way.

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Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.

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I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

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I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

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It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

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I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 23rd, 1964

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