No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

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Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.