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- But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.
- When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what…
- I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years.…
- Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a…
- I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
- I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about…
- I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually…
- You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
- He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long…
- We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't…
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