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We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.

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I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.

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When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.

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In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.

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I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.

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I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.

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I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.

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Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

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I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

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Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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