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Checking your phone during dinner is no less rude than reading 'People' during dinner, which I once saw a woman do at Blue Ribbon Brooklyn as she dined with her husband/boyfriend/whatever.

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I reject the notion that one should feel guilty about what you don't know.

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I work when I work, and that is often dictated by the things I cannot control.

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Nothing is ever ideal. You have to work all the same.

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Writer's block is a fiction.

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Summer is meant to be for travel, for exploration, for leisure, but sometimes budgets and schedules dictate otherwise.

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I work when I'm alone, but I have children and a family and a job, so alone time is at a premium.

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I grew up in the D.C. suburbs, and what I like about that place is that there's not a strong regional affect in the cultural imagination like there is in Dallas or San Francisco or New York City. You have a little more freedom as a novelist this way. The suburbs become a generic idea, and the place doesn't intrude into the narrative.

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You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

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I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn't; and that's not to say that there aren't many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life's passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there's something different about maternity.

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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