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" The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal. "

Douglas Coupland

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" Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect. "

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" Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again. "

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" Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper. "

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" Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. "

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" North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989. "

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" I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder. "

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" Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. "

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" My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life. "

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" I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs. "

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