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Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

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It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.

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That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.

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I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

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I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

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Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

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I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

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I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

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I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

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I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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