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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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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."
"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
"To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people."
"This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny."
"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."
"That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."
"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."
"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."
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"The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram."
"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."
"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."
"I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts."
"It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then."
"I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me."
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