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"The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory."
"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."
"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."
"My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work."
"I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow."
"I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me."
"The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white."
"I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane."
"I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts."
"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
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