I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.Jonathan Lethem
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.
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Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
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I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
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I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.
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