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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a person who can't teach writing or make a living in any public way, as I get confused when interrupted or overstimulated. In a classroom or crowded room, I all but blank out. So my only income is from novels.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.
- Best Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like starting projects in January. That's the best time to start something. It's so inward.
- Distraction
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.
- Nov 07, 2020
Today's world is very cruel.
- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be a writer. I still don't.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sadly I don't work well under restrictions. I need to forget the world and its rules and laws in order to enter the dreamlike flow of the fictional world. So I may be in some bad trouble.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020