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It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

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The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

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I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

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I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

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It was good while it was good.

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I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

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Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.

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I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

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I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

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My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 19th, 1964

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