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Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
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I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
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As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
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I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
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Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
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But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.
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I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.
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Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.
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I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
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My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
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I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
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I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.
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I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
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My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
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I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.
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