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My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
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So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
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I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.
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I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.
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I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.
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It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.
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Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
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I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
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The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.
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This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money.
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Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
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