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• Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.
• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I…
• Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs…
• Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life.…
• A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you…
• I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
• Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric…
• The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
• Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks…
• For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like…
• I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in…
• I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or…

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