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Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

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These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.

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I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

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I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

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In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

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