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"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."
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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
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"The body has a mind of its own."
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"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."
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"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."
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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
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"Treat your body good, because your body is your boat, it is your horse, it is your car, your wings, your every possible vehicle to take you to every possible place!"
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"You can kill the body but not the spirit."
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"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."
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"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."
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"I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies."
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"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner."
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"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
"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
"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
"I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job."
Commercialism
"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
"Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food."
Food
"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
"I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer."
Fame
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