- Foam
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is who I am. The choice is how good you are going to be at it and how hard you are going to work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents' bookshelf.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020