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We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

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I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way.

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In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.

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One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot be good writers and good people. One must be able to access one's darkest self, one's venality and pettiness and murderousness.

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Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or some fascination with the disgusting. Being good is a hindrance to a writer.

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No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is.

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A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

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Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs.

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Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

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No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup man by wearing them with your old college knapsack, in its nasty, nylon glory.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 2nd, 1963

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