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I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

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In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

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I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

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I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

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The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

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I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

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I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

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I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

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What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 19th, 1964

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