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"And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it."
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"Gospel of miracles is bringing about corruption in our country."
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"All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real."
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"Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself."
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"We think that boxes take everything that's bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in."
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"Our Christianity has become superstitious."
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"Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real."
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"I'm different. I will give you my treasure chest of darkness first. If you can handle that, then I'll bring out my shining moons. If one cannot handle the darkness, then one should not deserve the light. I have no interest in "trapping" anyone into a silken web. I have no silken web."
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"You do not have to feel truer than others in order to be original.You just need to be different and keep aspiring to be a better you."
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"Why did I think that the mask was a better portrayal than my authentic self? We can get hidden under layers of illusion, can't we?"
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"A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly."
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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."
Movies
"Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction."
Food
"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner."
Management
"And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it."
Authenticity
"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
"This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex."
Sex
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