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

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• ‟ Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

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• ‟ 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?'

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.

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• ‟ The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

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• ‟ I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

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• ‟ I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.

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

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