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The Process Of Composition, Messing Around With Paragraphs And Trying To Make Really Good Prose, Is Hardwired Into My Personality.

But That Incessant Drive To Be Out There In The Literary Universe That Was Important To Me When I Was In My Twenties, Like Going To A Paris Review Party Or Whatever, That Seems Totally Irrelevant Now.

I Believe In Choosing The Hardest Book Imaginable. I Believe In Reading Up On What Others Have To Say About This Difficult Book, And Then Making Up My Own Mind.

So While It Is True That I Find Really Dark Stuff Funny Sometimes, It's Also True That As A Writer Of Books I Want To Have The Whole Range Of Human Emotions.

Sadness Is Simply Something To Be Treated With Antidepressant Meds And Otherwise Need Not Be Spoken Of.