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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am.
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So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work…
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I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that…
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One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
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I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.
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Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.
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Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,
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I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and…
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Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want…
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I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way…
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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
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Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
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I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.
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The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself.
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