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"I hate that word dysfunction."
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"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."
"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."
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"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"
"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."
"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 was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second."
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