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I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.

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It's hard, but I try not to think of happiness as either pending or in the past.

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I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and make demands upon you.

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I am generally wary of the demand for 'likeability' in fiction, which I think is a bastardisation of the demand of identification - itself something of a suspect notion.

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There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.

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The canon is dominated by books written by men, about men, and for men - the male voice is therefore not a particularly difficult one to impersonate.

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There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on that tradition to take risks, to constantly raise the level of their ambition.

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The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another.

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I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.

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The first fight I saw live, the fighter I was shadowing lost in front of a crowd of forty thousand people. The scale of that is staggering to me. Undergoing that overlap between something very personal and something very public strikes me as both admirable and also somewhat terrifying.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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