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" I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong. "

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" I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love. "

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" Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me. "

" As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome. "

" It's healthy to have interests besides books. "

" If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality. "

" More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in. "

" I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic. "

" Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you. "

" The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it. "

" The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling. "

" Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter. "

" I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession. "

" I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage. "

" I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway. "

" After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times. "

" If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong. "

" I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?' "

" The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear. "

" I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours. "

" The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project. "

" Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work. "

" All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road. "

" I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic. "

" When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself. "

" Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin. "

" I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people. "

" I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist. "