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When you do good work, people will notice you.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

A huge part of making something work is getting along with people you work with. You want them to succeed; you want them to bring their ideas to life as much as possible.

I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.