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" I am somebody who has always struggled with uncertainty. And, of course, uncertainty is so core to life. I seek out knowledge to help me deal with that. But I'm also aware that knowledge can be really a double-edged sword. "
Life
Help
Knowledge
" Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain. "
Brain
Human Brain
Identity
" I did invent the idea of using lucid dreaming to treat sleep disorders, but I was influenced by many real-life researchers - from forefathers like Freud and Jung to Stephen Laberge and Rosalind Cartwright, who explore lucid dreaming and parasomnias. "
Dreaming
Treat
Sleep
" I grew up in San Francisco. And I grew up with gay parents. "
San Francisco
Parents
Gay
" I grew up in San Francisco, and I trained as a ballet dancer until college. "
San Francisco
San
Ballet
" I think much of my own quest in life is to figure out how best to cope with my own uncertainties. "
My Own
Life
Think
" I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read. "
Think
Storytelling
Love
" It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which one will be our last. "
Every Day
Step
Will
" I've always been fascinated by dreams - they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain's obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making. But because dreaming is an unconscious process, we have little control over the stories we tell, so they can be fraught with anxiety, vulnerability, and exposure. "
Anxiety
Dreams
Control
" I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown. Some of those are productive; some can be attempts to pin down things that are by nature impossible to know. "
Science
Religion
Nature
" I wish I'd had more fun in college. I spent a lot of time in my dorm room, reading or writing while listening to my Sarah McLachlan Pandora station. "
Time
College
Reading
" I work at a non-profit called ALS Worldwide, where we work with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) patients and families. It is often heavy work, but I'm grateful to be able to contribute to the ALS community. I'm constantly learning about science and medicine, and I have the honor of corresponding with patients throughout the world. "
Learning
Work
Community
" Magic is still a very white-male-dominated field. "
Field
Still
Very
" My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story. "
Well
Amazing
She
" My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and I became fascinated by the traditions she brought into our lives. "
Spiritual
She
Divorce
" None of us know what comes after death. All of us, to some extent, are probably mystified or maybe a little bit frightened of it. "
Little
Us
Know
" Sometimes, we writers find the perfect research material. I can't overstate how how precious that feels - it's as though you're having an intimate conversation with someone who has the key to unlock your project. "
Research
You
Perfect
" Teaching was an incredible experience, and I miss it a lot, but I also love the job I have now. "
Experience
Now
Love
" We forget that most questions in this world - the ones that really matter - are impossible to answer completely. "
Questions
Forget
World
" When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, 'The Immortalists' - four siblings visit a fortune teller who is rumored to be able to tell anyone the date that they will die - I always wish I had a better answer. "
Always
Better
People
" You can't have bad things happening to characters simply for shock value; you need to provide context. "
Things
You
Bad
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