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You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.

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The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

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I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

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I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.

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What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.

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I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

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Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad. I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.

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I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

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I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

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That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 18th, 1974

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