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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

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I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

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A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.

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What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

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I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

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Poets take themselves very seriously.

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What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make what he wants of it.

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'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how to tell it. Then twenty years after I started it, I found this one page and realized it was going to be the story. That's the only way you get it sometimes.

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I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

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Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 11th, 1922

Died: August 22nd, 2007

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