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" I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you. "
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Always
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" My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. "
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" In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long. "
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" I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies. "
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" New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. "
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" Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed. "
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" I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. "
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" This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex. "
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" There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me! "
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" I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras. "
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" Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. "
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" Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. "
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" In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other. "
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