I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
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She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'
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I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
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I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
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I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
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