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• I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't…
• The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
• Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
• Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.
• You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.
• What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.
• Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
• It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.
• When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't…
• When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going,…
• It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
• I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

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