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• ‟ I delivered Chinese food on Long island, which is pretty depressing. I lived with my parents and did that for six months. I got a job a few towns over from mine so I wouldn't have to see people from my high school.

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• ‟ My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.

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• ‟ Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

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• ‟ What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city.

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• ‟ Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.

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• ‟ I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.

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• ‟ What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.

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• ‟ I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.

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