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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come…
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