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Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
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We are all naturally xenophobic.
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
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The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.
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The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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I do have trouble with titles.
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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I can write anywhere.
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Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
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Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.
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I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
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After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
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I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
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I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
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Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
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Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
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Success and money can really be quite blinding.
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I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
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