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As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

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I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.

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My main question that I ask of my characters is, 'What does it feel like to be you? And how do you get through the day? Where do you find the hope and faith to endure getting through the days, and what are your days like?'

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When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

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Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.

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I've always been a big reader.

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I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.

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If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.

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The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.

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I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 4th, 1961

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