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In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.


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Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.



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If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.



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By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.



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In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.



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To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.



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Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing, and then it's to be considered and fine-tuned and even calculated.



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While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.



For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I'm the person I am today because of hearing Charles.

For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I'm the person I am today because of hearing Charles.





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I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one word that stood for that feeling, right then.



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