Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.
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Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable . . .
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The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
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She kept encouraging me when I was young, and so I just accepted it this was what I was going to do I was going to write books, ... But she never said anything about money or success, so none of that was built into my expectations. Just writing and getting published was enough at first.
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