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Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.

~Patrick Dewitt

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Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.

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I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.

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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.

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I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.

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Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.

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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.

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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

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Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.

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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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