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I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

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I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

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It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.

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Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

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I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.

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Nothing is critic-proof.

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I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

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I lead a very conventional life.

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I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.

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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 5th, 1934

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