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There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

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Christopher Bollen
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 26
Journalist
Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Slowly
Value
Story
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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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Secrets are never secure because they are always at risk of being found out.
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Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.
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My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.
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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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Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of Losing My Religion. That's a landmark piece.
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I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express [1974] movie poster on his bedroom walls.
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I like to be alone, I mean, I really love to be alone more than anything else, and I don't really like to talk about myself to death, and I don't like to share too much, and I don't really have dreams of extreme fame or even extreme respect.
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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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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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I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.
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The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.
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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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We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.
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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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I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.
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I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need
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When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.
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