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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control ...more

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When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I h...more

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A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technolog...more

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Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always...more

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My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' Th...more

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My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have th...more

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The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jo...more

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Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

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A woman calls from Seaview to say her linen closet is missing. Last September, her house had six bedrooms, two linen closets. She's sure of it. Now sh...more

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Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels?