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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

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I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'

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In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

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I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.

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I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.

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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.

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I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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