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I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.

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Christopher Bollen
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: November 26
Journalist
Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Really
Cigarettes
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Disgusting
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If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the previous generation - but treating it like it's never been done before. It becomes very cyclical very quickly.
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Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.
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I was a very scared child.
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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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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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One day I want to write a full-on horror book.
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Secrets are never secure because they are always at risk of being found out.
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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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There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
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It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.
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Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.
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It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.
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An album for me as a teenager in the '70s was a fully formed concept. It was a body of work from an artist I liked or trusted or who excited me. Maybe one of the songs is really poppy and you listen to it on the radio as a hit single and then more of the world is about to find out about this artist by buying the record.
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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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My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
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I had been going out to Orient for several years.
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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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I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.
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