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Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer is omnipotent. Gravity, taxes, and death are mere options, subject to the writer's fancy.

~Katherine Dunn

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Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

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No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.

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Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.

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It is time to recognize the variability of females, just as we do males.

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I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.

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I'm just a regular Joe.

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In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.

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Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

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Each reader projects their own version of the experience inside their skull as they go along. It's probably true that no two people read exactly the same book.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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