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I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work is, right? To make the reader think it is not hard to do.

~Janet Malcolm

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If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.

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As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very talented at talking about what I do as a writer.

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People talk in ungrammatical, unwriterly ways.

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I think of myself as more of a maker than a thinker.

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I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.

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My scepticism of biography continues even though I keep doing it.

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The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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