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“Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?”

— Nicholson Baker

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I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

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Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.

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Success

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Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

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For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

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Life

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I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.

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Life

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I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

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Love

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