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Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

~Michael Chabon

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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

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It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.

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It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.

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It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.

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I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

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I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

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The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

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Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

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People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 24th, 1963

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