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" Although I'm not an orphan and I can't lift a horse. I was, however, briefly famous for my feats of strength: at about age 11, I could competitively arm-wrestle a full-grown man. "
Horse
Strength
Man
" 'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing and becoming someone else. Even if you don't share that obsession, I can't recommend this book highly enough. "
Your
Enough
Someone
" Band I listen to most: The Ramones. "
Most
Band
Ramones
" Finally, I'm recognizing that rewrites aren't some cosmic punishment for childhood wrongs but the nature of the business. "
Childhood
Punishment
Nature
" For more than three months, I had been president and primary owner of Spellman Investigations, and I can say with complete certainty that I had more power in this office as an underling. My title, it seemed, was purely decorative. I was captain of an unfashionable and sinking ship. "
Ship
Power
I Can
" Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you. "
Appearance
Hair
Job
" Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones. "
Story
Way
Only
" I am a huge Mel Brooks fan. And I do think that not seeing his canon of classics is a bit criminal or clueless. "
Criminal
I Am
Fan
" I could never really choose a favorite book, but whenever I'm asked what my favorite movie is, I always say 'Withnail & I,' a British film from 1987. It's funny and sad and absolutely gorgeous to look at. It's the film I can watch over and over again. "
Look
Sad
Say
" I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way. "
Strong
Father
Happy
" I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there. "
Think
Prison
Me
" I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence. "
Any
Feel
Writer
" If I were one of the three viable presidential candidates, I doubt I'd be too broken up about someone looking into my passport file. Go ahead look, I'd say. It's the passport photo I wouldn't want anyone getting his hands on. "
Hands
Say
Looking
" If you're trying to hide, avoid using your own name. Have a couple spares that you can pull out of your pocket anytime, the more thoroughly documented the better. "
Hide
Better
You
" I have a love/hate relationship with jogging. "
Relationship
Jogging
" I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game. "
Fair
Rules
Game
" I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer. "
Questions
Satisfied
Feel
" I learned how to cross-country ski. "
Ski
How
Learned
" I liked the idea of exposing the beams in collaborative novel. And there are many - especially in the crime world - there are many people working together: James Patterson and his stable of sub authors; and then there are like Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman and Jason Starr. "
Like
Working Together
Together
" I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre. "
Plan
Loved
Write
" I love 'The Wire'. I can't think of a television show that I think is superior to it in any way. I was obsessed with it from the moment it came on the air. I do also love 'Doctor Who' and 'Get Smart'. "
Think
Love
Moment
" I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really. "
Always
Really
Crime
" I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything. "
You
Research
Sometimes
" I tend to start books with a very broad outline, but I always leave room for happy accidents. With 'The Passenger,' there were perhaps too many of those. "
Happy
Leave
Accidents
" I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never know at the outset how the book will end, nor do I ever stick to my original plan. "
Know
Plan
Book
" I've always adored the filmmaker Sam Fuller. The first time I watched 'Shock Corridor' was such a magnificent discovery. I love his lack of subtlety, the way he tackles serious topics with bold and inappropriate humor. "
Bold
Time
Serious
" I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character. "
Giving
Got
Business
" I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents. "
Being
Parents
Obsessed
" I was on a few surveillance jobs as part of a big team. I would be the person to follow the subject on foot when the need arose. But most of the time, we were sitting in a car doing nothing. "
Sitting
Team
Time
" I was young, maybe 4, when I learned where babies came from. "
Where
Learned
Babies
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