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It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

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If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.

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I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.

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I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.

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I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

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I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

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I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.

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I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

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I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.

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I hate that word dysfunction.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 17th, 1959

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