"A lot of amazing things did come after I was out of my teenage years that I never believed would happen. "I would say that childhood doesn't last that long because I don't remember being particularly happy as a teenager and I didn't know what was going to come next." What would today's Quick tell himself back then? "Not to worry so much – but I knew I would worry anyway," he says. That was very liberating for me because in the neighbourhood where I grew up (Quick lived in Philadelphia), people were not expected to write novels so that, I felt, was a gift Kurt gave to me." "There have been many other books like Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, and that's when I realised I could write something smart, but also be crass and curse and speak like the people I grew up with.
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