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"The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
"A dessert to a deserter in the desert burst, "You trust your thirst. And you are too hot! You scream for ice cream. And believe it or not, I may not be your first. But I might be your lust! Give it a shot..."
"I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."
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"I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man."
"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."
"When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way."
"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."
"I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer."
"I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second."
"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."
"I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover."
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