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I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.

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I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.

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You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing.

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I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

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I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

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If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.

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It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'

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When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.

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Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 9th, 1943

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