- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just finished a novel called 'Exult,' by Joe Quirk, last night. It's about hang gliding. I liked his first book, too, 'The Ultimate Rush.' I now know that I never, ever, ever want to go hang gliding, so that's good.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I wrote 'You Suck' was that I so enjoyed spending time with Tommy and Jody.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
- Diction
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my father, was much more concerned with watching football on Sundays than attending services.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.
- Eddie Murphy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get bored easily, so I generally throw something supernatural in. I would say they're humorous novels that have a supernatural bent, but that's as close as you're going to get to fitting them all in the same basket.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020