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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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"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."
Books
"Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit."
Literature
"In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love."
Love
"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."
Career
"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
Expectation
"Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another."
Nerd
"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
"I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there."
Love
"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
"My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work."
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"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."
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"The purpose of employment is not to make money."
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"Joblessness gives you time to grow."
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"Life experience is the new work experience."
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"Having a job is being busy."
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"Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J."
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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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"I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogie in the parish too."
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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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