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I was a very scared child.

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Christopher Bollen
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 26
Journalist
Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Children
Scared
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I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.
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You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.
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Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.
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Secrets are never secure because they are always at risk of being found out.
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My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.
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There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.
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The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.
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There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.
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I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?
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I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.
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I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.
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It's really hard to write about art in general. But it's exceptionally hard to fictionalize art and make work that isn't a parody, or is something that could withstand critique and exist in the art world as a valuable object, or a true piece.
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