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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.