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"I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job."
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"Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?"
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"There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism."
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"I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job."
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"It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise."
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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."
Fame
"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
"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
"I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home."
Home
"My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted."
Family
"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner."
Management
"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."
Movies
"I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror."
Work
"I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras."
Food
"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!"
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