Chris Pavone
After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing career — neither the writing-workshop academia life nor the freelance-writer version, trying to scrape by on short stories and house-painting gigs.
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I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween...At painful times, when composition is impossible...If I am what I have and if I lose what I have...If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it...There are two things that are more difficult...The unknown is always scary...