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The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage.

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I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

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When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.

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I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.

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For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

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I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

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I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets Tourettes meets prose.

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As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

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I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

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Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.

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A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

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I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

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The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

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I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

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I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.

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