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When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

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We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.

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It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?

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I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

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's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.

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I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.

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The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

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The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

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It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

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It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 17th, 1959

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