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My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it was one of the bricks, the building bricks, that you had to understand about the forms of writing.

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The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.

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We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.

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I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

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Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

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I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

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I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

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Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

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But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

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But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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