You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them

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I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

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My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

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Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

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I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

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My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

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I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

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When I want something to happen — or not happen — I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

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