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Teddy Wayne

(1949) Novelist

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Teddy Wayne is a novelist.

Quick Facts About Teddy Wayne

Born: November 30, 1949
Profession: Novelist

About Teddy Wayne

[Wikidata] American novelist... | [Wikipedia] Teddy Wayne is an American novelist and short story writer whose books include The Love Song of Jonny Valentine (2013) and Loner (2016). He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and many other publications.

Quotes by Teddy Wayne

I think that most successful artists - not always, but a lot of them, in any field - have business savvy as…

Aesthetic

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I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace.

Book

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I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his…

Assembling

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“It’s super-important to have a strong social media presence, and Jane’s always going, When interviewers ask you about your Twitter, say you…

Internet

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People talk about Obama in the same way 12-year-olds talk about Bieber, and speculate about what he and Michelle are like behind…

Behind closed doors

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It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).

Character

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For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in…

Books

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We spend more time with our coworkers than we do with our loved ones, and yet we don't have that many novels…

Bickering

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