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I've always been interested i...

I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.

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We've lost that very simple t...

We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.

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I'm never a fan of the sociop...

I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile.

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He must trust, and he must ha...

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

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I am a freak in secondhand ve...

I am a freak in secondhand velour, a leper who uses L'Oreal Anti-sticky Mega Gel. I am rootless, ripped from all foundations, an orphan raising an orphan and wanting to take away everything there is and replace it with stuff I've made.

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It was called the Middle Ages...

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.

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When I was on the bestseller ...

When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

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I always like the idea of doi...

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

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Paper is a uniquely beautiful...

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

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So this is the space during t...

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

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The weird thing is that worki...

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

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Tim O'Brien's book about Viet...

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

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I went to Saudi Arabia in 201...

I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

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When I'm doing work online or...

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

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I'm an amateur science enthus...

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

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Books have a unique way of st...

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

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But while mum and dad were in...

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

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There are many Saudi women do...

There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.

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It's so easy to print in the ...

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

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Status in itself is criminal ...

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

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