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" As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. "
Child
Science
Reading
" English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market. "
Design
Because
Over
" I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal. "
Believe
Interest
I Believe
" If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter. "
Would
Want
Pursue
" If it's not American, the French won't go see it. "
Go
American
French
" I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English. "
Back
Forth
Doctor
" I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless. "
Hopeless
Gifted
" I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. "
Being
Faces
Hero
" In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing. "
Million
Nothing
America
" I never learned to read music. "
Never
Learned
Read
" Is anything accidental? "
Accidental
Anything
" It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture. "
Uniform
Think
Culture
" I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. "
Human
Relationship
Technology
" I was a precocious reader. "
Reader
Precocious
" I write in American slang. "
American
I Write
Write
" Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype. "
More
Manipulation
Mexico
" There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. "
Things
Certain
Ordinary
" The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel. "
She
Writer
Whatever
" The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them. "
Easy
Become
Technology
" When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money. "
Walk
Got
Money
" You can really do more than you think you can do. "
More
Really
Than
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