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I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
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Started
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Stories
Even
Dreary
Threw
Pens

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I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.
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At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.
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One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.
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I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
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The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.
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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.
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Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
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For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
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If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.
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The angel said, I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.
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Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
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Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.
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Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?
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Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.
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