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I've Always Wanted To Be A Poet At The Beginning. I Would Look At My Grandparents' Books And My Parents' Books. And In My Family, A Typical Aspirational Jewish Family, Being A Writer Was Very Much Exalted, And It Seemed Impossible To Me, That I Could Ever Do Something Like That.

You Are Fiercely Heterosexual And Well-formed, And It's No One's Business That You've Shrunk Your Parents And Keep Them In A Terranium, But You Have A Gatling Gun For A Mouth, And If That's A Diary You're Producing From Your Cleavage, I'm Leaving.

People Really Want To Believe That There Is No Fiction. I Think They Find It Much Easier To Imagine That Novelists Are Writing Memoirs, Writing About Their Lives, Because It's Difficult To Conceive That There's A Great Imaginary Life In Which You Can Participate.

When I Started, I Wanted To Be Thought Of As Tortured And Seductive, Not Funny, But Humor Tends To Be A Reflexive Part Of A Person's Sensibility. It's An Almost Impossible Thing To Teach Anyone, Which Leads Me To Believe That It's Intuitive.

I'm In That Very Preliminary Stage Of Wondering How Exactly To "pressurize" The Novel In Some Way I've Never Considered Before.