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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
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Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
Jonathan Carroll
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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.
Jonathan Carroll -
I feel like a cliche.
Jonathan Carroll -
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.
Jonathan Carroll -
The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.
Jonathan Carroll -
There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
Jonathan Carroll -
For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
Jonathan Carroll