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My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven’t determined yet. I think my mother’s a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.

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I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

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Writing is like carrying a fetus.

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There’s a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer’s head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it’s going to.

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

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I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

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As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

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I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.

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I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

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