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There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

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There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

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Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.

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If you read a book about school - someone else's book - you always translate it into your own school experiences. It's describing the student: he's bewildered and lost in a large crowd in a university classroom. You'll visualize that from your own experiences. So, everything you know is what you're really writing.

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I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

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The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.

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If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.

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The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.

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My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book.

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I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 10th, 1925

Died: June 19th, 2015

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