Whenever I'm with my [teenager], I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
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For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never heard before, and it must have its own particular intelligence. By 'voice,' I don't mean vernacular. It has to have its own particular history and world that it inhabits.
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I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
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There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
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I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.
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