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"I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer."
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"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."
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"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."
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"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."
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"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
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"The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming."
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"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."
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"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be."
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"Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid."
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"If you are a person that is willing to fulfill your reputation becoming famous, you should feel optimistic about your goals."
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"I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want."
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"I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job."
Commercialism
"Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction."
Food
"I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer."
Fame
"Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food."
Food
"I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror."
Work
"My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove."
Family
"There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!"
Time
"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."
Body
"In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!"
Experience
"I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years."
Death
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