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My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

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I've been using the same 'I Ching' since I was teenager when it was given to me by a fellow teenager; it seems too late to change now. I don't use it often, but when I do, it really does help. You can fool yourself, but not the 'I Ching.'

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Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and even wrongheaded. She opened up a lot of space that me and a million other women rushed into.

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There's no law against asking strangers about their lives and feelings, although sometimes it really feels like there is.

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I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way.

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I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I do end up reading lots of shorter things.

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I know I'm going to lose a lot of readers over this, and I don't care: 'Garfield' is overrated. I have always felt this, even as a child. That dumb man and his dumb, mean cat have gotten more of our attention than they deserve.

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The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't last long in college.

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I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

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I think this is how life is. It's not a linear march through time; you revolve around the same old things as you age and acquire experiences.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 15th, 1974

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