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I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in.

~Lydia Millet

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In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength.

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Historically, grizzlies ranged from Alaska to Mexico, with at least 50,000 bears living in the western half of the contiguous United States. With European colonization, the bears were shot, poisoned, and trapped to the brink of extinction.

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I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.

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L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.

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Most of my books have something to do with L.A.

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People from the rest of the state tend to hate Phoenix, with that typical resentment of the boroughs and the towns for the big city.

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I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?

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People who are obsessed amuse me.

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I don't write the same book twice.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: December 5th, 1968

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