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- Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse. Better
- Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might… Book
- I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist. Called
- I could never take the idea of religion very seriously. Funny
- I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to… Book
- I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David… Admired
- I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others. Brought
- I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway. Apprenticed
- If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? Food
- If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. Approximate
- It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised. Funny
- Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate. Commingled
- Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. Certitude
- Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write. Go
- My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. Austen
- No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time. All
- One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost. Been
- Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. Enemy
- People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away. Every Page
- Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s. Began
- Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. Book
- The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best… Best
- The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. Complacency
- The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. Boxing
- To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition… Aware
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