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Suggest Revision: Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
 
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Suggest Revision: I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.
 
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Suggest Revision: I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
 
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Suggest Revision: I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.
 
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Suggest Revision: I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.
 
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Suggest Revision: I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.
 
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Suggest Revision: I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
 
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Suggest Revision: I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.
 
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Suggest Revision: I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.
 
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Suggest Revision: If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.
 
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