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• ‟ Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

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• ‟ I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it - in a world in which everything else is out of control.

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• ‟ I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.

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• ‟ I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

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• ‟ This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

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• ‟ What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

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• ‟ I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.

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• ‟ I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.

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