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The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

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Jess Walter
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 20
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Journalist
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Spokane
Washington
Fiction
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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.
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He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.
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If you come from money and you become an addict, you go to the Betty Ford Clinic, you get treatment. If you're living on the street and you're an addict, it's much harder to find your way out.
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His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.
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He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.
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And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.
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He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.
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Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you.
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And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?
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I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.
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I'm certainly eclectic in my writing.
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I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'
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I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.
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He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
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