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I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.

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A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.

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I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding.

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When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.

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Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.

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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

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Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.

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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.

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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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