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Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

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I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

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I grew up with 'Life' magazine on the coffee table, Life cereal on the breakfast table, and the game of Life on the card table. People were just so happy to be alive, I guess.

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I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.

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You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

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If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

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Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

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You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

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My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that.

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I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 13th, 1957

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