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Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.

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I don't tend to picture my characters as actors and actresses.

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I'm for any woman who loves sloths.

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If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion.

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Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein.

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No one bought my screenplays.

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You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.

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One man's holy is another woman's sublime.

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If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.

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If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: December 5th, 1968

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