Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

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It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

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It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

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I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

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I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

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Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.

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The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

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The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.

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I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

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