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I Can't Trace Thematic Similarities Between Then We Came To The End And The Unnamed To A Life Event; I Think It's More Just A Natural Progression As A Writer. Everything Changes In The Second Book - Tonally, Character-wise, Situationally - And On Top Of That, I Think I Wanted A Challenge. I Wanted To See If I Could Do It.

Comedy Is Like Fictional Charm. It's The Charm Of Fiction. Or The Charisma Of Fiction. When You Meet Somebody Who's Immediately Charismatic, You're Attracted To That Person. And In Fiction It's Got To Come Out In Either One Of Two Ways: In The Prose Itself, And You're Hooked Immediately Because You Never Want To Leave Such A Colorful And Penetrating World. Or, It's Simply Being A Funny Writer.

Being Serious Is Serious Business In Fiction. It's Commercial Or Hoi Polloi In Fiction To Be Funny. It's Too Accessible To The Great Unwashed.

I Know What To Do With My Life. I Just Don't Know What To Do With This One Night.

I Always Knew From The Beginning That This Was The Only Way To Write Then We Came To The End - That It Had To Be In First - Person Plural If It Was Going To Illustrate How The Individual Becomes Part Of The Collective. I Had No Interest In Writing The Book In A More Conventional Voice. It Goes Back To That Fascination I Had With Telling A Story In Multiple Ways. It Was The Only Choice I Gave Myself, Really - I Said "this Is It, Pal. If You Can't Tell A Story This Way, You're Going To Have To Abandon The Book. Write It This Way Or Give Up."