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Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

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I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

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I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest in that and just started reading a lot. I didn't know what to read. I didn't have much direction outside of school.

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Sometimes I would take Nietzsche or something. And I wouldn't read it, but more just scan the words. Sometimes I would get whatever the popular thing at the time was. I don't know, something like Bret Easton Ellis. It was just a very random, inefficient education.

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The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in a way that I didn't take anything else seriously. So I guess that was the start of it.

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It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to be doctors, or historians, or C. E. O. 's or whatnot, and I thought, Maybe I want to be a writer.

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None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.

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