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Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

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I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

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And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.

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I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

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I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

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I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

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My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

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Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

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I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 25th, 1967

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