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"I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example."
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"Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies-loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt-every time they come around."
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"A friend is a person who always understands your preoccupations, even when other people do not perceive them at all."
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"After all we have few friends, if we don't show that we care about them, we will reach 0 friends..."
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"Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship."
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"When we see a lonely fisherman, we ask where the boat is; when we see a lonely boat, we ask where the fisherman is! We love to see the good friends always together!"
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
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"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash."
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"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."
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"Friendship is not about ships-no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is."
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"Life's gonna kick you in the butt. That's what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn't in life?"
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"I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example."
Friendship
"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
"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
"It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then."
Emotional
"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
"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
"I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space."
Space
"In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love."
Love
"I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me."
Fiction
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