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"What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark."
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"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."
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"Joblessness gives you time to grow."
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"I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs."
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"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."
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"Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise."
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"We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel". Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor"."
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"Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money."
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"Use your passion to create a job."
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"An entrepreneur sells his thoughts and ideas as a packaged product."
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"Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them."
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"I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world."
Work
"The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory."
Writing
"I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow."
Work
"In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love."
Love
"I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy."
Character
"When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed."
People
"I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts."
Literature
"The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals."
Religion
"I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously."
Writing
"I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid."
Art
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