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I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

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I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

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I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.

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There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.

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Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

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Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.

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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

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I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

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Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

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That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 7th, 1957

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