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I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.

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Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

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Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.

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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.

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You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.

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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.

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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.

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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.

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It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: December 2nd, 1948

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