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I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.
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Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.
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Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When an editor tells me something isn't working and I still believe in it, I tend to think it just isn't working hard enough.
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I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.
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I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.
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The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.
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I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.
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In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.
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I had always loved life on the road. It was just something that appealed to me very deeply.
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