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I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.

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When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I just knew I'd never been happy in school, and I had this strong suspicion I'd be happy doing other things.

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I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.

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I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts.

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When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at the reader. The book's real power comes from its slower, broader movement.

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Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.

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Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.

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When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

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I couldn't understand what was important about school. Dropping out was the first adult decision I made. If I ever have kids, I would hate for them to drop out. But I wasn't a rebel. I never cared to be against school. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do.

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I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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