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- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's just say I'm a believer in universal, single-payer healthcare insurance.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's understandable why someone might not want to take on a book they think is emotionally hard.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Las Vegas is a great place to be from, not to live in.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought of Caesars as the gold standard. I had exactly one date in high school, and my father knew someone who got us comped here for the Sammy Davis Jr. show. We heard 'Candy Man,' 'Mr. Bojangles' - the whole list. And then my date and I went off to the dance - homecoming, I think - where she pretty much ignored me.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here - in my body.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.
- Mine
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- Nov 07, 2020
One older brother of mine collects comics, and when I was younger, I collected them, too.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't a leap for me to go from not wanting to be in my body as a teenager, not wanting to be in my house, to thinking, 'What would happen if I had disappeared?' And then going from writing scenes of angry kids to thinking a little more about the parents and what their lives would be like.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been wonderful to hear so many excited and intelligent responses to 'Beautiful Children,' not only from reviewers but also from the people coming out to my readings.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every author dreams of the kind of attention that 'Beautiful Children' has received in the press. Obviously, it's a shock whenever it happens. So yeah, I'm as surprised as everybody else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that have no answers.
- Geez
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should probably read it.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been less interested in the person on the top of the Bellagio than I am at the person whose house got moved to create the Bellagio.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project.
- Adult Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I flatter myself to even imagine I could have had a medical practice. There's no way. I'm not scientific or disciplined enough, lots of things.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying to expand and do different things. I knew I would write about it, but I stayed away for as long as I could.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that people go to Las Vegas for 'whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.' They go for the spectacle.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have a lot of great jobs. I was a third-shift legal proofreader. I did office work for people where a friend might say, 'Hey, we need someone,' in his office, and then I will have a month or two weeks or whatever somewhere. I was - I taught fiction workshops.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art, you know, art and fiction, especially in big books, you know, it takes a while.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really a meditator. I'm, like, a napper.
- Again
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Diana passed, I did not believe for one second that I would remarry or that I would be in love again.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I very much loved my late wife, Diana Joy Colbert, and I'd rather hold onto what I can.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have a pawnshop in Downtown Las Vegas for quite awhile. I grew up seeing people come in and want - need - money so they could go and gamble again or so they could pay their bills or whatever reason, and try and sell items that were of value to them.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sister, who is a wonderful and beautiful actress now, when she was 11 or 12, she would go out and take pictures of the punk parties in the desert. She used to have blue hair, and she got kicked out of Las Vegas Day School for having blue hair.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love my chosen craft. No matter whether it's disappearing or disappeared from the mainstream, that's really been where my mind and heart is.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not a happy or popular or happy-with-myself kid, and I wasn't an especially motivated student, either.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020