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"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."
"Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true."
"As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened."
"I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in."
"With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it."
"I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways."
"I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen."
"I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time."
"I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience."
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