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That Adage About 'write What You Know' Is Basically The Opposite Of The Way I Function. I Write About What I'm Curious To Find Out.

She'd Risked Everything, And Here Was The Result: The Raw, Warped Core Of Her Life.

'look At Me' Started With Rockford, Illinois And New York And The Question Of How Much Image Culture Was Changing Our Inner Lives. That's An Abstract Idea; You Don't Think That's Going To Be A Rocking Work Of Fiction, But It Seemed To Fuse In A Way That Was Interesting.

The Bottom Line Is That I Like My First Drafts To Be Blind, Unconscious, Messy Efforts; That's What Gets Me The Best Material.

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