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I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001.

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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book - you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.

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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.

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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

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One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

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At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'

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