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"We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know."
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"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly."
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"My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced."
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"I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either."
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"Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm."


"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."
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"I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else."
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"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."


"It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be."
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"That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there."


"And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment."
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"You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree."
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"It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers."
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"So let's say you're using XYZ product and you want to do something very sophisticated. You subscribe to this thing, you hit a button, and a CA expert pops up in video."
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"I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them."
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