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I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.
Joel Stein
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Joel Stein
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.
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I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.
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I've learned over time that every editor has told me when you're getting that much hate, you don't talk about it. You just kind of don't give it oxygen and let it go away. It's almost - not always, but almost - always the best policy.
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Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.
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I don't read letters sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.
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