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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
- Nov 07, 2020
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Every Single Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never listen to music when I write.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to both give and receive very old books.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Forties
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
- Before
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
- NPR
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- Nov 07, 2020