"The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right."
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"My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops."
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"Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't."
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"I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them."
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"I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed."
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"I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't."
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"I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written."
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"I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection."
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"I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction."
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"I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad."
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"I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy."
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"Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things."
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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to."
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"What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?"
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"Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner."
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"My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid."
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"My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him."
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"It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important."
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"In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand."
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