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Hannah: Grady, you know how in class you're 

always telling us that writers make choices? 

Grady: Yeah. 

Hannah: And even though you're book is really beautiful, 

I mean, amazingly beautiful, it's... it's at times... it's... 

very detailed. You know, with the genealogies of everyone's 

horses, and the dental records, and so on. And... I could be 

wrong, but it sort of reads in places like you didn't make 

any choices. At all. And I was just wondering if it might 

not be different if... if when you wrote you weren't always... 

under the influence. 

Grady: Well... thank you for the thought, 

but shocking as it may sound, I am not the first writer to sip 

a little weed. Furthermore, it might surprise you to know 

that one book I wrote, as you say, "under the influence," 

just happened to win a little something called the Pen Award. 

Which, by the way, I accepted under the influence.