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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.

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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

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Proust is a huge author for me.

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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.

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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

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My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.

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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.

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I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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