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"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."
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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
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"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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"Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor."
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"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."
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"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."
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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."
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"I walked out with 14 advertising projects."
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"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise."
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"My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective."
Family
"I never listen to music when I write."
Music
"As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened."
Family
"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."
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"And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing."
Writing
"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work."
Life
"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."
Marriage
"I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen."
Books
"I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father."
Family
"My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day."
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