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I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

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I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

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When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

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I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel.

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I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

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The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

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I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

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It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.

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My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

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I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 13th, 1961

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