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I don't write a novel every two years.

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I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.

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I wish I had more time to write.

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Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.

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I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.

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I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.

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Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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