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After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.

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When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.

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There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

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I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.

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Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.

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My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact.

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My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Even when I dropped out of high school, they said, 'We trust you, we believe in you.'

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I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get.

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If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

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Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze freely, they essentially destroyed the prairie.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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